Vendor-managed inventory (VMI) and consignment inventory (CI) are supply-chain sourcing practices between a vendor and customer. VMI allows the vendor to initiate orders on behalf of the customer. This presumably benefits the vendor who can then make replenishment decisions according to her own...

Intro -- IT Inventory and Resource Management with OCS Inventory NG 1.02 -- Table of Contents -- IT Inventory and Resource Management with OCS Inventory NG 1.02 -- Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgement -- About the Reviewer -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this...

We review and interpret recent work on inventories, emphasizing empirical and business cycle aspects. We begin by documenting two empirical regularities about inventories. The first is the well-known one that inventories move procyclically. The second is that inventory movements are quite...