This resulted in a decision to centralize inventories, thereby removing several smaller inventories located especially in Europe. The COO and business intelligence managers and the supply chain department all expressed satisfaction with this decision considering the quality of the data that were used in order to make the final decision. There were, however, also doubts as to whether this decision actually would be the best for the company logistically as data collected sometimes were not sufficiently reliable. This doubt stemmed from the fact that cost data from certain inventory locations were either missing or were obviously wrong