Mr. Benton is Chairman and Founder of GAINSystems and has over twenty years of professional business and consulting experience. He is recognized as an international speaker and the author of Inventory Chain Optimization. He maintains consulting relationships with many Fortune 1000 companies and government organizations. Mr. Benton has extensive experience in developing and managing improvement programs in several major functional areas, including strategic, tactical, and organizational planning, business systems development, data processing, inventory and manufacturing management, supply chain management, logistics, inventory distribution, telecommunications, budgeting, and business controls. In the area of inventory management, Mr. Benton has management expertise in the fields of inventory control, procurement and distribution systems development, and order processing systems. Through working with over 400 companies in the past twenty years, he has earned recognition as a pioneer in developing optimal processes for demand management, supply management, multi-level forecasting, inventory management, and distribution, and is the author of the General Adaptive INventory System (GAINS®) for optimizing management of inventory chains. GAINS embodies a concept that employs management sciences and expert systems technology to maximize service levels, optimize costs, reduce inventories, and reduce workload.

All Papers from William Benton:

 Inventory Chain Optimization: The Next Dimension for Supply Chain Management
Many firms have invested time and money in a variety of technologies to increase corporate return on investments. These systems have enabled management to make better and more timely decisions, but this has still in many cases resulted in only modest reductions in inventory levels. The ability to quickly reduce such inventories gives management a great opportunity to quickly increase ROI.
Ascet Volume 1, April 15, 1999