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Smart Tips – Managing Your Cash Supply Chain and Inventory - #6 Define Delivery Schedules

One of the costliest areas in cash supply chain management for a bank or credit union is the expense associated with cash deposit and deliveries. In this blog post, we will be reccomending best practices that financial institutions should use to define their delivery schedules appropriately to optimize the cash supply chain and reduce deposit, delivery and holding costs.
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Smart Tips – Managing Your Cash Supply Chain and Inventory - #5 Update Your Inventory Expectations Frequently

One of the best practices for having optimal inventory levels is to regularly update your inventory expectations frequently. This means adjusting your targets and limits appropriately by reviewing your actual cash demand and usage. Often, cash inventory and supply chain processes and expectations go years without being updated. However, to truly optimize your processes, these expectations should be updated on a monthly basis, and even more often if there are significant changes to your cash supply chain or inventory like during the COVID-19 pandemic when cash demand was higher than normal.
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Smart Tips – Managing Your Cash Supply Chain and Inventory - #4 Create a Target or Limit

Financial institutions use limits to manage their cash supply chain and inventory, however there are “do’s” and “don’ts” of setting limits that can drastically affect your success. Today, we will discuss best practices your bank or credit union can use to set limits appropriately.
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Community Banks and Credit Unions Alleviate Coin Shortage Fallout by Asking for Help from their Communities

Another one of the many consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic was the partial closure of the economy. Due to this partial closure, a nationwide coin shortage has developed because consumers are unable to spend their coins at local businesses that were temporarily closed or cut back on their operations. In addition, the U.S. Mint’s coin production also decreased at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to keep employees safe. Additionally, we’ve seen an increase in online purchasing which yet again, leave coins out of the mix. All of these factors mean there are less coins now in circulation.
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Smart Tips - Managing Your Cash Supply Chain and Inventory - #3 Expect the Unexpected

If we’ve learned anything over the last few months, it is that the least expected can easily become reality and everything can change in an instant. In our previous post we talked a lot about the trends that should be evaluated when reviewing your cash supply chain and the processes surrounding your branch, ATM and vault cash inventory, but as we adjust to a “new normal” we are beginning to see that the previous trends may not always apply.
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Smart Tips - Managing Your Cash Supply Chain and Inventory - #2 Be Aware of Trends

This week, our smart tip focuses on awareness of trends in the demand for cash. While we have all witnessed the unexpected over the last few months and recognize the importance of being prepared for the unknown, it is even more critical to be aware of ongoing and predictable trends that impact your cash flow. Here are five tips to help your financial institution optimize their cash supply chain and inventory.
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Smart Tips - Managing Your Cash Supply Chain and Inventory - #1 Addressing Customer Demand

A good inventory system is important to any business' growth. For most industries, inventory ties up cash figuratively in products sitting on a shelf or in a warehouse. But for financial institutions, branch, ATM, vault and device cash is a financial institution’s inventory.
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Branch and ATM Cash Management Challenges During COVID-19

Inventory management isn’t just about food and sports equipment though, it’s also about cash. Logicpath has worked with thousands of branches and ATMs to help banks and credit unions create new inventory management practices that are helping them through the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Cloudy with a Chance of Cash

A good inventory system is important to a business’ growth. A financial institution's inventory is the cash tied up in branch, ATM, vault and devices. Like any other business, not enough or too much inventory can be costly to the business and inhibit growth.
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How the Universal Banker Model Impacts Branch Cash Management

Research estimates that more than half of banks and credit unions have adopted a universal banker model in their branches as a part of their overall branch transformation strategy.
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