Setting Aggregate Inventory Levels: An Operations Management Decision?

Five hundred financial executives from North American companies were surveyed by means of a mailed questionnaire to gain a view from outside the operations functions of the basis on which aggregate inventory decisions are taken. The response indicated that more functions than might have been expected were involved in the process of determining inventory levels and, partly because of this, policy tended to be of a shorter rather than longer term nature.

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Year of publication:	1984
Authors:	Gaither, Norman ; Fraser, Donald R.
Published in:	International Journal of Operations & Production Management. - MCB UP Ltd, ISSN 1758-6593, ZDB-ID 2032083-8. - Vol. 4.1984, 1, p. 18-33
Publisher:	MCB UP Ltd
Subject:	USA \| Inventory Control \| Decision Making \| Organisational Decision Making

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Type of publication:	Article
Type of publication (narrower categories):	review-article
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	10.1108/eb054705 [DOI]
Source:	Other ZBW resources

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