... for diversification strategies and operations manager’s inventory control policies to achieve the strategic fit between corporate diversification and inventory management. Originality/value Product and international diversification strategies not only play an essential role in the firm’s competitive advantage...

... Limited 2013 Supply chain management Key performance indicators Inventory management Seasonal and non‐seasonal demand Make and buy supply chains Improving supply chain performance is important to any company delivering goods and services to the market. Following Fisher's (1997...

... management aims were found: inventory management, forecasting and production strategy. Within the method three decisions are identified to come to a classification: the characteristics, the classification technique and the operationalisation of the classes. Research limitations/implications Drawing...

... to the holistic approach in VMI use: merging sequential decision‐making on replenishment into a single decision that considers all relevant inventory and demand information simultaneously (Holweg et al., 2005 ; Disney et al., 2007). To be sure, classic inventory management theory suggests...

.... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Inventory management Demand forecasting Spare parts Distribution management Demand for spare parts arises whenever a component fails or requires replacement, and as such it is different from that associated with a “typical” stock keeping...

... a number of directions (e.g. to juxtapose the research findings in existing theories, to examine variations of the four “pure” inventory management approaches, or to consider the vantage point of the supplying firm rather than that of the buying firm) is encouraged. Practical implications...

... theory Inventory management The absence (or inadequacy) of well‐established, well‐tested and well‐accepted operations management (OM) theories has recently been acknowledged by OM theorists and researchers as one of the weakest areas of OM research. In 1998, issue 4 of the Journal...