Textbook
Inventory Control and Management, 2nd EditionISBN: 978-0-470-85876-9
Paperback
408 pages
October 2003, ©2003
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Holding stock is expensive – problems of inventory control
almost universal. Over the past decade organisations have been
trying to improve customer service while lowering stocks and
increasing the speed of material flow through their supply chains.
This completely updated new edition reviews current thinking on
inventory management. It emphasises the growth of e-commerce, and
the trend away from classical models based on economic order
quantities and towards dependent demand systems.
The author sets inventory management in its broader context, discussing the important trends and pressures for change. The main approaches are discussed and evaluated, giving the reader a broad appreciation of the principles involved. Some quantitative ideas are developed in the text, but the author has kept the mathematics to a minimum, focusing on practical examples and calculations on spreadsheets.