Note: Seppuku in the Stockroom

Ernest Koenigsberg
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Ernest Koenigsberg: Schools of Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 and Manalytics, Incorporated, 625 Third Street, San Francisco, California 94107

Interfaces, 1985, vol. 15, issue 4, 86-88

Abstract: The problems of US industry are not those of inventory levels but those of “a failure of managerial competence (in production)” (to use the words of E. S. Buffa). It is the superior production systems that allow inventory reductions, and not the other way around.

Keywords: inventory/production:; policies; replacement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1985
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