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Managing Inventories: What is the Approp...

Freeland, James R....

Technical Note

Managing Inventories: What is the Appropriate Order Quantity?

Freeland, James R.; Landel, Robert D.

OM-1006 | Published December 13, 2001 | 11 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

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This note examines a firm's decisions about its cycle of stock-ordering activities and the cost-element considerations behind those decisions. Students learn that, as materials flow from suppliers through a firm's operations to customers, the objective is to develop and implement a management system that can improve the cost effectiveness of the investments in inventory.

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