Tsurumi Ensures Reliable Pump Supply with Strategic Inventory Forecasting and Logistics
By prioritizing strategic distribution networks and inventory management, Tsurumi Pump strives to ensure timely product availability, even in the face of supply chain challenges. Tsurumi leverages Netstock, an inventory management tool, to forecast demand and maintain optimal stock levels. By analyzing a rolling 12-month history, Netstock identifies seasonal trends and provides data-driven recommendations on inventory levels and production scheduling. This approach minimizes stockout and overstock from occurring, allowing Tsurumi to meet customer needs on a timely basis.
Navigating logistical challenges
When sourcing global products, anticipating container arrival and ensuring timely delivery to warehouses presents a challenge. Delays in ocean freight, congestion at ports, and unforeseen disruptions can impact supply chain processes. To mitigate these circumstances, Tsurumi monitors container movement through its transportation partners, allowing for proactive adjustments to delivery schedules and reducing the chance of delays. By working closely with a network of trusted logistic partners, Tsurumi can monitor shipping routes, prioritize critical shipments, and navigate supply chain disruptions more effectively.
In response to global supply chain challenges, Tsurumi maintains three months of safety stock for core products. This proactive approach ensures that customers have access to products, reinforcing Tsurumi’s commitment to reliability.
“Our focus is always on serving our customers with the best possible availability of our products,” said Heather Paar, administrative services manager at Tsurumi. “By continuously refining our inventory and logistics strategies, we reinforce our promise to deliver quality products when our customers need it most.”
Strategic warehousing for faster delivery
To ensure adequate product distribution, Tsurumi has established distribution centers and third-party warehouses across the United States. These facilities play a crucial role in supplying pumps quickly and cost effectively to channel partners. By positioning inventory closer to major industry markets, Tsurumi reduces delivery time, allowing customers to receive product faster. Tsurumi’s warehouse network provides flexibility to scale inventory levels based on regional demand, seasonal fluctuations, and weather-related emergencies. In critical situations such as severe flooding or natural disaster, Tsurumi’s warehouses allow pumps to be quickly dispatched to affected areas, helping communities and businesses respond with minimal downtime.
Through innovation, adaptability, and a proactive strategy, Tsurumi is well positioned to meet the challenges of today’s supply chain landscape, the company said.
About the Author
Michael Roth
Editor
Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.