August 2020
Intermediate to advanced
318 pages
8h 20m
English
An inventory policy determines how much and when a product should be ordered (or produced).1 Inventory policies determine how the products flow through a supply chain. We can categorize them into two types, based on when the inventory review is done:
Continuous review policies: an order can be made at any time.
Periodic review policies: the orders can only be made at specific times.
Let’s discuss in detail three of the main inventory policies used in practice.
In this first inventory policy, we order our products based on a fixed threshold: as soon as the net inventory reaches the threshold (or goes below), we order a ...
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