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Wholesale inventories rose yet again. Today's reading from the Commerce Department showed a 0.5% gain in wholesale inventories to a seasonally adjusted $487.5 billion. While higher, this matched ...
Wholesale trade is off to a tough start for 2014, according to a Commerce Department report (link opens a PDF) released today. After inching up a revised 0.1% for December, wholesales sales ...
A positive flow of intended inventory investment occurs when a firm expects that sales will be high enough that the current level of inventories on hand may be insufficient—perhaps because in the presence of very short-term fluctuations in the timing of customer purchases, there is a risk of temporarily being unable to supply the product when a customer demands it.
Economists expect business inventories to subtract from gross domestic product in the fourth quarter. Private inventory investment contributed 1.40 percentage points to the economy's 5.2% ...
Inventory optimization refers to the techniques used by businesses to improve their oversight, control and management of inventory size and location across their extended supply network. [1] It has been observed within operations research that "every company has the challenge of matching its supply volume to customer demand.
Collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment (CPFR) is an approach to the supply chain process which focuses on joint practices.This is done through cooperative management of inventory through joint visibility and replenishment of products throughout the supply chain.
The U.S. economy received a double-dose of good news in the latest wholesale inventories report: Inventories unexpectedly rose 1.9% in October to $427.1 billion -- a gain that provides more ...
Material theory (or more formally the mathematical theory of inventory and production) is the sub-specialty within operations research and operations management that is concerned with the design of production/inventory systems to minimize costs: it studies the decisions faced by firms and the military in connection with manufacturing, warehousing, supply chains, spare part allocation and so on ...