Authored by a team of experts, the new edition of this bestseller presents practical
techniques for managing inventory and production throughout supply chains. It covers the …

Efficient management of inventories is essential for both retailers and wholesalers. Two
disciplines which have extensively studied retail and wholesale (R&W) inventories are …

Retailing consists of all the activities associated with the selling of goods to the final
consumer. In this article, we review the research on retail operations published in …

Using data involving customer–supplier relationships and a large sample of US publicly
listed firms, our study documents a negative and statistically significant relationship between …

Retail inventories have been consistently dropping, relative to sales, since the 1990s.
Whether these lean inventory developments translate to better retailer operational …

This paper develops an empirical model to investigate the impact of macro-economic risk on
working capital and the various types of inventory. Our analysis helps manufacturing firms …

The objective of this paper is to identify antecedents of inventory agility (ie, the capability to
quickly adapt inventories to changes in demand) upon demand shocks based on the …

We study a joint inventory and pricing problem in a single-stage system with a positive lead
time. We consider both additive and multiplicative demand forms. This problem is, in …

Lean is one of the most pervasive and powerful paradigms in Operations and Supply Chain
Management. As a theory, lean has been well tested in manufacturing. Lean in retail has …

Purpose This study aims to investigate the effects of temporary workers and works councils
on process innovations at manufacturing sites. The impact of temporary workers, commonly …