This week’s topics
Inventory Management Processes and Replenishment
- Continuous and periodic review systems
- Safety stock calculation
- Stocktaking and cycle counting
- Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)
- Periodic and Perpetual Inventory Systems
- Lec 19- Safety Stock and Fixed Time Inventory Model
What you will be able to do
- 3.4 Describe a logistic business’s inventory management processes.
Activity
Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: describe a logistic business’s inventory management processes.
Study materials
Videos
- Periodic and Perpetual Inventory Systems · YouTube · Dr. Haywood · 7 min · for registered students
- Inventory (Stock) Control Charts · YouTube · tutor2u · 8 min · for registered students
- Ordering and accounting for inventory - ACCA Management Accounting (MA) · YouTube · OpenTuition · 24 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Operations Management (Fanshawe), ch. 13: Inventory Management · Reading · Other, textbook chapter; PDF pp. 565–600 · for registered students
- MIT OCW ESD.260J Logistics Systems (Fall 2006), Inventory management IV: probabilistic demand, safety stock · PDF · MIT OpenCourseWare, slides · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.