ABSTRACT

Best Practice in Inventory Management 3E offers a simple, entirely jargon-free and yet comprehensive introduction to key aspects of inventory management. Good management of inventory enables companies to improve their customer service, cash flow and profitability. This text outlines the basic techniques, how and where to apply them, and provides advice to ensure they work to provide the desired effect in practice.

With an unrivalled balance between qualitative and quantitative aspects of inventory control, experienced consultant Tony Wild portrays the many ways in which stock management is more nuanced than simple "number crunching" and mathematical modelling.

This long-awaited new edition has been substantially and thoroughly updated.

The product of decades of experience and expertise in the field, Best Practice in Inventory Management 3E provides students and professionals, even those with no prior experience in the area, an unbiased and honest picture of what it takes to effectively manage stocks in a firm.

chapter

Introduction

chapter 1|15 pages

The basis of inventory control

chapter 2|17 pages

Customer service

chapter 3|18 pages

Shaping inventory

chapter 5|18 pages

Management and control

chapter 6|18 pages

Lean supply

chapter 7|15 pages

Safety stocks

chapter 8|15 pages

Setting the right stock levels

chapter 9|12 pages

Procurement

chapter 10|16 pages

Delivery quantities

chapter 11|13 pages

Forecasting demand

chapter 12|19 pages

Historical forecasting techniques

chapter 13|13 pages

Improved forecasting methods

chapter 14|16 pages

Dependent demand

chapter 15|21 pages

Supply chain inventory management

chapter 16|8 pages

Meeting the challenges

chapter |30 pages

Questions and answers