Inventory Control in Theory and Practice

T. M. Whitin

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1952, vol. 66, issue 4, 502-521

Abstract: I. Current emphasis on inventory control, 502. — II. The calculation of economic purchase quantities and reorder points, 503. — III. The interaction of economical purchase quantities and reorder point quantities, 508. — IV. Analysis of inventory control problems for style goods, 513. — V. The relationship between inventory control analysis, businessmen's behavior, and economic theory, 517.

Date: 1952
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