Module A: Product Availability and Inventory
- Product approach and inventory exposure
- Categorizing products and response strategy
- Calculating the impact of Availability on inventory liability

Module B: Flexibility Requirements and Inventory
- Determining the impact of demand variation (market, artificial)
- Forecasting and impact on flexibility requirements
- Service level and buffer requirements
- Product lifecycle and flexibility

Module C: Product LT profile
- BOM LT profiles
- Cumulative lead-time
- Building a time-investment curve

Module D: Calculating Inventory Exposure
- Lead times and inventory exposure
- Buffers: demand and supply
- Tools and techniques to calculate exposure through the supply chain

Module E: “Should Be” Inventory Calculations
- Building blocks of fundamental inventory levels
- Trade-offs
- Strategies to manage

Module F: Materials
- Prioritizing procurement activity
- Component/commodity categorization for inventory/flexibility planning
- Solution implementation with suppliers

Module G: Value-add areas (manufacturing, configuration, pack-out, etc.)
- Cycle time vs. touch time
- Important levers - set-up, batching, queue
- Dealing with constraints (process, materials)

Module H: Other related methods
- Pull systems
- Material replenish patterns
- Useful tools and concepts

Module I: Contracts and Key Business Terms
- Management of "unique" vs. standard parts
- Off-balance-sheet liability
- Services: flexibility, inventory
- Reporting requirements
- Data access

Module J: Metrics
- Post-performance (delivery, inventory)
- Early warning (flexibility, delivery, inventory)