Tactics on Inventory Projections (2,242 words)

We can look at the inventory rates at the buyer level, warehouse level and vendor level. So we can drill down pretty well to see, for example, what's causing a problem.

CS: How have you achieved that accuracy, and how do you plan to maintain or even improve it?

Zientarski: We'd like to see vendor collaboration on our inventory projection needs in 2003. Vendors could share in the forecasting duties. We don't currently do that.