Custom Plastic Injection Molding
At Ruco, flexibility and foresight drive our approach to inventory management. We tailor our services to our clients’ needs and maintain rigorous, internal inventory controls to consistently deliver high-quality products on time. Whether it’s supporting long-term planning with scheduled releases or offering just-in-time fulfillment, our inventory strategies are designed to keep production moving and our customers confident in every order.
A Personalized Approach to Inventory Management
At Ruco, we customize our inventory services to meet our clients’ needs. For example, Teledyne, issues quarterly purchase agreements with weekly orders outlined. Having a clear picture of their long-term needs gives us the freedom to fill production gaps. With this arrangement, it boosts our efficiency and keeps things moving on the shop floor. It also saves Teledyne time by taking the management component out of it for their team. Instead, they can be confident we will deliver what they need on schedule.
Another client, Sierra Bullets leverages our inventory offerings in a different way. We maintain a full set of their bullet box sizes in our warehouse at all times. When Sierra Bullets requests a specific size, we ship it directly from this dedicated stock. As soon as those items are sent, we initiate a new replacement order. This system ensures we can fulfill their orders immediately, providing seamless and efficient service.
How We Manage Our Inventory Internally
To better serve our clients, we have also developed an inventory program for our own materials. In February, we do a light check to make sure our stock matches our numbers in the system. We make adjustments as needed and place orders for any low or missing items. We then do a more comprehensive review in August.
For the late summer check, we inventory all finished goods, materials, additives, assembly finished goods, and assembly components. We also weigh all partial containers of material and verify completed gaylords of finished goods and in-stock components for assembly. Doing this annually helps us close out our fiscal year and ensures we have adequate material on hand for our high use items.
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