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What percentage of my turnover should I think is reasonable for warehouse space ?

My business is a wholesaler of office product and furniture items.

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This is not an easy question as there are many items to consider. Management structure, wages, job descriptions, benefits offered and more. Turn over is a costly part of business, instead of asking the question what is acceptable, I would ask what is not acceptable. Make changes, get insight, conduct exit interviews and find out why you seem to have turn over. Make adjustments accordingly.


Answered 6 years ago

Furniture will take more space in werehouse. Aldo these furniture is very slow moving product. It will stay in your werehouse for a long time. So i wont advise to keep many furniture in your stock.

On the other hand office stationery is a fast moving product. They dont rake more space. And so you can keep a large amount of them in stock.


Answered 6 years ago

There is a formula in Operations Research which exactly tells you the desired inventory size based on the monthly/annually shipments runrate and the acceptable backlog. Look at the inventory theory here https://www.ime.unicamp.br/~andreani/MS515/capitulo12.pdf


Answered 6 years ago

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