LEADER 03125nam 2200493 a 450 001 9910139640403321 005 20170815153822.0 010 $a1-118-02586-5 010 $a1-119-20308-2 010 $a1-283-02688-0 010 $a9786613026880 010 $a1-118-02584-9 035 $a(CKB)2550000000031442 035 $a(EBL)661461 035 $a(OCoLC)705538428 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC661461 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000031442 100 $a20101027d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 200 10$aInventory best practices$b[electronic resource] /$fSteven M. Bragg 205 $a2nd ed. 210 $aHoboken, N.J. $cWiley$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (354 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-118-00074-9 327 $aInventory Best Practices; Contents; Preface; 1 Success or Failure with Best Practices; 2 Inventory Purchasing; 3 Inventory Receiving and Shipping; 4 Inventory Storage; 5 Inventory Picking; 6 Production Issues Impacting Inventory; 7 Inventory Transactions; 8 Inventory Planning and Management; 9 Warehouse Layout; 10 Cost Accounting; 11 Bills of Materials; 12 Impact of Constraints on Inventory; 13 Inventory Policies and Procedures; 14 Inventory Measurements; APPENDIX: Summary of Inventory Best Practices; Glossary; About the Author; Index 330 $a"Best practices can be anything that increases the existing level of efficiency, such as switching to blanket purchase orders, signatures stamps, and procurement cards to streamline the accounts payable function. It can also lead to improved levels of reporting for use by other parts of the company such as activity-based costing, target costing, or direct costing reports in the costing function. By implementing the best practices you'll learn in the new edition, a company can greatly improve its level of efficiency information reporting, which fits nicely into the requirements of most strategic plan. New material will include: Distinguishing between different types of distressed merchandise for disposal purposes; Improving partner relationships to reduce the total landed cost of an inventory item; Shift some outsourced production to local suppliers to cover last minute replenishment issues; Warehouse reduction analysis; Component profiling to reduce inventory levels; Relocate suppliers on-site; Demand forecast sharing with suppliers; MRO inventory reduction systems; Product footprint analysis on pallets; Review of limited shelf-life items; Modify the safety stock calculation; Sequence incoming supplier parts to match the production line; Reverse logistics."--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aInventories 606 $aInventory control 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aInventories. 615 0$aInventory control. 676 $a658.7/87 676 $a658.787 686 $aBUS001040$2bisacsh 700 $aBragg$b Steven M$0472801 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910139640403321 996 $aInventory best practices$92295879 997 $aUNINA