business strategy, streamline processes for supply chain integration, form partnerships for minimizing inventory and focus on …

Stresses the crucial importance of the balance between companies' policies of inventory management and the occurrence … logistics flows. The financial benefits that might be achieved through leanness in inventory management might also negatively … industry to achieve a suitable balance between the inventory and the occurrence of disturbance within inbound and outbound …

Purpose – To identify the key determinants of successful vendor managed inventory (VMI) and strategic supply chain …

Purpose – Vendor managed inventory (VMI) is a model for supply chain collaboration gaining ground in multiple … compared with existing literature. Findings – It is found that current inventory status and sales forecasts are the most …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of decentralised control on finished goods inventory … levels in a distribution system, and to identify the factors that determine the overall inventory level. Design … inventory management practices and firm performance. Findings – It was found that the common assumptions that distribution …

Managing inventory levels in the aggregate is a common concern of senior management. A generalized formula (turnover … curve) developed in previous research that mimics practical inventory control is used to audit inventory control performance … of changing the inventory control procedures or to set new targets for inventory levels. It is a simple yet powerful tool …

Current studies indicate that buyers can improve lead‐time performance and reduce total inventory‐system costs by …

Namit and Chen recently created two algorithms to solve the <Q,r> inventory model for gamma lead‐time demand without …

Effective inventory management is critical to retailing success. Surprisingly, there is little published empirical … research examining relationships between retail inventory, sales and customer service. Based on a survey of 101 chain store … units, this paper develops and tests a series of hypotheses about retail inventory. Seventy‐five percent of the store owners …

Recent models comparing inventory costs under just‐in‐time (JIT) purchasing plans and economic order quantity (EOQ …) purchasing plans have tended to favor EOQ purchasing in situations where annual demand of inventory is moderately large. Contends … series of inventory purchasing cost models that extend prior methodology by Fazel by including relevant physical distribution …