Purpose The retail revolution swing from traditional distribution to e-tailing services and unprecedented increase in internet adoption insist practitioners to diversely plan warehousing strategies. More than practically required storage space has been identified as wastes, and also it does not...

Literature on healthcare supply chain management has shown that the lean system can provide significant benefits.It known that success in lean management doesn't come with employees but through current technology and clinical perfection.The effort of serving society causes hospitals to spend...

Using financial accounting panel data from the COMPUSTAT database for a universe of all inventory-carrying companies in the period from 1994 to 2003, we develop a statistical methodology that links managerial decisions about inventory with accounting returns. We find that, after we control for...