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- Seasonality and Promotions as they Impact Inventory Management
- Products that exhibit seasonality can, if not handled properly, have a major adverse impact on inventory management and planning. Unless the forecast for these products recognizes and deals with the seasonality, the forecast will lag demand as the product enters its strong selling season, and it will just as seriously...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Six Sigma Quality Management and Desirable Laboratory Precision
- There is a key issue relative to managing inventories at companies with multiple warehouses or stocking branches. The key advantage to having inventory decisions take place locally is that personnel are aware of local factors and upcoming events. They are in a position to anticipate special promotions that may be...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Inventory Management Is Key In Retailing
- Warehouses and distribution centers play an important role for retailers. They help in meeting multiple demands and add value to retailing. The process calls for managing inventory in an efficient manner. The returns of inventory play a major role in retailing. The same refer to the ability of a manager...
- White papers 2001-08-01
- Varying The Carrying Cost For Individual Products
- From the executive summary: ‘It is important to know the cost of carrying inventory. It is a critical factor in deciding what products to stock and when to re-order them, as well as the best quantity to order. Too often companies and organizations use an imprecise rule of thumb to...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- On the Interactions Between Routing and Inventory-Management Policies in a One-Warehouse N-Retailer Distribution System
- This paper examines the interactions between routing and inventory-management decisions in a two-level supply chain consisting of a cross-docking warehouse and N retailers. Travel times are fixed between pairs of system sites. Every m time periods, system inventory is replenished at the warehouse, whereupon an incapacitated vehicle departs on a...
- White papers 2004-09-01
- The Relative Efficacy of Distribution System Inventory Management Across Auto Manufacturers
- Given the size of the automobile industry, and the high per-unit cost of a car in inventory, it would seem that inventory management is an important issue in the automotive industry. Indeed, there has been tremendous anecdotal coverage in the business press regarding automakers' consistent efforts to reduce inventory. Most...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- Risk Aversion in Inventory Management
- Traditional inventory models focus on risk-neutral decision makers, i.e., characterizing replenishment strategies that maximize expected total profit, or equivalently, minimize expected total cost over a planning horizon. This paper proposes a framework for incorporating risk aversion in multi-period inventory models as well as multi-period models that coordinate inventory and pricing...
- White papers 2005-12-27
- Dynamic Inventory Management With Learning About The Demand Distribution
- A well-known result in the Bayesian inventory management literature is: if lost sales are not observed, the Bayesian optimal inventory level is larger than the myopic inventory level. It has been proven under the assumption that inventory is perishable, so the myopic inventory level is equal to the Bayesian optimal...
- White papers 2006-01-30
- A Computational Model For Inventory Management And Planning
- The objective of the study presented in this paper is to determine the factors of the optimal level of merchandizing inventory. This study is based on a mathematical model. The results revealed some interesting findings. The most important conclusion is that the 'Usage of Material' or the Sales Volume is...
- White papers 2006-10-30
- Kohl's Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question will come from the line of Adrianne Shapira of Goldman Sachs. Adrianne Shapira - Goldman Sachs Kevin, maybe just focusing a bit on gross margin -- obviously tremendous performance in the first half and if you can kind of walk us...
- Earnings calls 2009-08-13
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- Xerox And Bradley Company Streamline Inventory And Forms Management For Guardian Insurance
- It is true that an organization can stand on its feet independently. But, when efforts of two organizations are combined, it creates magic. The magic is seen in the overall outcome of the big organization, which takes the risk of merging its efforts with some other company. The process of...
- Case studies 2003-01-01
- BHARTI SELECTS METASOLV'S M6 FOR INVENTORY & ORDER MANAGEMENT.
- (Full text of a statement, contact details below) PLANO, Texas, June 21 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ -- MetaSolv Software, Inc., a global leader in comprehensive service fulfillment solutions for next-generation communications service providers, today announced that the Bharti Group, India's second largest mobile operator and fourth largest wireline operator, has selected...
- Research articles 2004-06-21
- MetaSolv Executes Multi-Million Dollar License Agreement with Major U.S. Service Provider; New License Win with Large Tier 1 Operator for MetaSolv's M6 Inventory and Order Management Solution
- PLANO, Texas -- MetaSolv Software, Inc., a global leader in comprehensive operational support system solutions for next-generation communications service providers, today announced a new multi-million dollar agreement with a major Tier 1, U.S.-based wireless and wireline service provider who has selected M6 -- MetaSolv's next-generation order and inventory management solution...
- Research articles 2005-11-16
- Covad Implements NetCracker Solution for Inventory and Service Management; Strategic implantation will optimize the economic value of the broadband industry leader's network
- BOSTON -- NetCracker, the leading global solution provider enabling service providers to deliver and manage converged services, today announced that Covad Communications Group (AMEX: DVW), a leading national provider of integrated voice and data communications, is using the NetCracker Solution to manage all network inventory and services, replacing four internal...
- Research articles 2005-09-20
- Accounts Receivable And Inventory Management
- Accounts receivable is the net monetary value realized by an organization through sales. The parameters affecting accounts receivable management include level of sales, terms of sales, and quality of customer. Efferent inventory management is imperative for reducing wastage in the production process. The paper examines the basics of accounts receivable...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Supply chain management vendors Exel and RedPrairie will jointly develop solutions for creating efficient supply chain networks, including inventory control, tracking and tracing, and warehouse and labor management technologies capabilities, as well as mu
- Supply chain management vendors Exel and RedPrairie will jointly develop solutions for creating efficient supply chain networks, including inventory control, tracking and tracing, and warehouse and labor management technologies capabilities, as wel Supply chain management vendors Exel and RedPrairie will jointly develop solutions...
- Research articles 2005-03-01
- Asset Verification Using ADC's Network and Inventory Audit Services.
- This case study briefs about Asset management. A major U.S. interexchange carrier needs to verify the accuracy of its asset-management database. Using ADC's Network and Inventory Audit service, the carrier had an accurate representation of it's asset-management database to its actual physical inventory, from which it could determine whether to...
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- Upgrade Your Inventory and Accounting Systems
- Asian and Hispanic foods retailer Atlanta Oriental Food Wholesale Co. AOF has unique needs. Many of its employees speak only Korean, and it receives products from hundreds of importers. As a result, when the company began looking into upgrading its inventory and accounting systems in 2003, it could not implement...
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- Integrated Workforce Capacity And Inventory Management Under Temporary Labor Supply Uncertainty
- In a manufacturing environment with volatile demand, inventory management can be coupled with dynamic capacity adjustments for handling the fluctuations more effectively. This paper considers the problem of integrated capacity and inventory management under non-stationary stochastic demand and flexible capacity uncertainty. The capacity planning problem is investigated from the workforce...
- White papers 2007-01-15
- Joint Pricing And Revenue Management With General Stochastic Demand
- We extend the traditional revenue management paradigm to simultaneously optimize price and inventory decisions across three phases of the revenue management process: capacity investment, product design and inter-temporal segmentation. We solve these problems under very general demand assumptions, which explain, unify and generalize state of the art models of stochastic...
- White papers 2005-07-04
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