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 …

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to explore the role of inventory and warehousing within international supply chains … customer lead times and that, with the exception of new product lines, demand therefore needed to be supplied from inventory …. In addition, inventory was a common risk mitigation strategy against the possibility of random demand variability and …

utilise systems‐based forecasting to conduct an evaluation of inventory and forecasting systems being used to support its … – Analysis of the current inventory and forecasting system suggests a possible lack of forecasting precision. Current non …

levels of inventory. Yet global or theatre based manufacturing strategies are lengthening lead times, extending supply chains … and increasing risk of both excessive inventory and poor customer service. Logistics strategies to manage the conflicting … based on simulating the relationship between organisational process and procedure and the flow of inventory through the …

of the first to study the use of heterogeneous vehicles in an inventory model of a supply chain, and one of the few … supply chain inventory models that consider ecological aspects.  …