...N. Rajeev Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide guidelines for entrepreneurs for implementing effective inventory management (IM) practices and presents the results of a survey of machine tool enterprises in Bangalore, India. Design/methodology/approach A descriptive analysis is used...

... Supply chain management Blood transfusion Inventory management Health services Simulation Finland Detailed activity data at the hospital transfusion service was collected from the database of the Verike‐ program, software that is used to control and document the activities in the hospital...