... in both the backroom and on the sales floor. The decrease in inventory record inaccuracy and out-of-stocks was even greater among products stored primarily on the sales floor suggesting the benefits from increased visibility accrue to sales floor inventory management processes. In contrast, the authors...

... in an inventory model of a supply chain, and one of the few supply chain inventory models that consider ecological aspects. Inventory management Inventory Supply chain management Inventory decisions Heterogeneous vehicles © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Our paper makes several...

.... remanufactured, recycled) indefinitely (El Saadany et al., 2013), which is also an unrealistic assumption. The existing studies also ignored the cost of waste disposal and social costs in rehabilitating landfill sites. This paper contributes to the inventory management literature on production...

... to interesting final considerations, easily to be applied in different industrial contexts. As other industrial applications are identified, they may be analyzed by using the methodology and extrapolating the data from this paper. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Inventory management Total...

...Jingjing Xu; Theo Notteboom; Alan Harrison; Johannes Fichtinger Purpose The paper aims to explore the relationship between time‐related variables in global ocean transportation networks (GOTNs) and the shipper's inventory management performance. The authors modelled fill rates with daily...

... Supply chain management Retailing Decision making Demand management Information exchange Inventory management Retail promotions are pervasive as a means to stimulate or shape consumer demand. Both retailers (Sobel, 1984 ; Varian, 1980) and manufacturers (Blattberg et al., 1981...

...Stanley E. Fawcett; Matthew A. Waller; Amydee M. Fawcett Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a holistic paradigmatic lens through which the supply chain collaboration phenomena – including collaborative inventory management – can be understood and explained. Design/methodology...

...Matthew Waller; Brent D. Williams; Travis Tokar Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of inventory management articles published in major logistics outlets, identify themes from the literature and provide future direction for inventory management research to be published...

...Benita M. Beamon; Stephen A. Kotleba Purpose To develop and test three different inventory management strategies as applied to the complex emergency in south Sudan. Design/methodology/approach Quantitative modeling, simulation, and statistics. Findings This research identified critical...

... management Replacement control Customer relations Value added Inventory management © MCB UP Limited 1994 ...

...Michael S. Spencer The management of a warehouse facility has often been viewed as a problem in facility layout, inventory management, or logistics. Seldom has the management of a warehouse been viewed as a process of succeeding operations that can be analyzed as a unique operating production...

... to be maintained. The reported application demonstrates both the effectiveness of DBR in reducing lead‐time and its vulnerability to misunderstanding. © MCB UP Limited 1991 Lead times Distribution management Inventory management Manufacturing systems ...

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