Inventory best practices [[electronic resource] /] / Steven M. Bragg

• Autore: Bragg Steven M
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2011
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (354 p.)
• Disciplina: 658.7/87; 658.787
• Soggetto topico: Inventories; Inventory control
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Classificazione: BUS001040
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Inventory 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
• Sommario/riassunto: "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."--
• Titolo autorizzato: Inventory best practices
• ISBN: 1-118-02586-5; 1-119-20308-2; 1-283-02688-0; 9786613026880; 1-118-02584-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910139640403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II