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What Is Inventory Deployment?

Understand how Inventory Deployment fits into the supply chain

Inventory deployment is a complex plan focused on strategically allocating inventory to multiple locations, in turn minimizing the inventory and storage levels at a single warehouse. Inventory ties up capital and is expensive to store, so companies have started focusing on deployment strategies to take down inventory levels while ensuring effective transportation and supply chain execution to cut costs and ensure customer happiness.