Essentials of Inventory Management
The new inventory manager’s best friend: a no-nonsense, how-to-get-it-done-right guide
Most inventory professionals would gladly trade all the "latest thinking" books for a guide they could use to do their jobs better right now. Essentials of Inventory Management! presents ready-to-use
information in key areas from physical control and layout to problem
identification and resolution. Concentrating on daily-use inventory concepts,
this practical workplace companion specifically
addresses:
- Forecasting and replenishment strategies
- Differences between finished-goods (retail) inventories and
materials or work-in-process (manufacturing) inventories.
- Materials
requirements planning (MRP) and just-in-time (JIT) inventory
systems
- Managing
inventory as both a physical object and a monetary value
- Applying
simple formulas to calculating quantities
- Analyzing
and remedying dysfunction
Plus, the book covers theft prevention, legal obligations, and the managment of natural, technological, and incited emergencies. In all, it's the most thorough introduction available to the inventory management profession.
Edition: 2003, Hardback, 243 pp.
ISBN 0-8144-0751-X |
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