Cycle inventory counting is an inventory management approach where part of an inventory is counted each day. A counting schedule is developed, and specified areas of inventory are checked according to ...

An inventory cycle, also called inventory turnover, or turns, is a measure of how many times during a given period a company sells an volume of products equal to the volume of supplies it keeps on ...

Anne Embrey, vice president of fulfillment operations for Replacements Ltd., said her company maintains too much aged inventory with about 4% of orders being categorized as ‘problem’ orders. Embrey ...

Avoiding excessive inventory carrying costs requires maintaining accurate inventory records. One of the most efficient ways to maintain that accuracy is by ...

Nonlinear endogenous theories of the business cycle have been rarely subject to statistical estimation and testing. This paper is an attempt to overcome the difficulties in deriving a univariate ...

For those of you who still shut down your facility once or twice a year to review inventory, I have to ask why. With cycle counting, there is no need for such disruption. The best way to ensure ...

If you don’t have what your customer wants, you lose the sale. Perhaps you can order it, but that means the customer will have to wait. A competitor might have it readily available, and they make the ...

Simply sign up to the US companies myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The turn in the inventory cycle could prove to be a help or a hindrance to companies worldwide. The phenomenon known ...