"This new edition provides a focused message on how inventory optimization effects specific business verticals through improved metrics. It reviews the fundamentals of inventory optimization so that practitioners can attain a demand driven supply as well as provides a business perspective of why...

Intro -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Verzeichnis der Abbildungen -- Verzeichnis der Tabellen -- Verzeichnis der Beispiele -- Verzeichnis der Abkürzungen -- Vorwort -- Erster Abschnitt: Bestandsursachen und ihre Bewältigung -- 1. Optimiertes Bestandsmanagement als unternehmerische Herausforderung --...

Introduction -- Retail valuation : how investors value product availability and inventory management -- Assortment planning : mining sales data to discover "home run" products you are missing -- Product life cycle planning : how to reinvent forecasting, inventory optimization, and markdown...

"Best practices can be anything that increases the existing level of efficiency, such as switching to blanket purchase orders, signatures stamps, and procurement cards to streamline the accounts payable function. It can also lead to improved levels of reporting for use by other parts of the...