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Using Inventory Optimization to Retool Talent Gap Analysis
From Turnover and Hiring to Talent Inventory
Prior chapters looked at how to retool your strategic talent supply-and-demand goals. This chapter and the next explain how to optimize the talent flows that meet those supply-and-demand goals. HR leaders can use powerful business tools to analyze the sequential flow of raw materials to storage facilities, then into manufacturing or fabrication, then into finished goods inventory, then to distribution, then to retail inventory, and finally to consumers.
Each holding point is an inventory that can be analyzed individually, optimizing things such as shortages, surpluses, and holding and acquisition costs. This is inventory optimization, the ...
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