One of the basic tenets of materials management in manufacturing is the holding of inventory to meet specified customer service levels. Increases in safety stock can usually only be avoided by initiatives such as forecasting, just-in-time, or lean manufacturing whose combined result is to...

Attempts to accurately measure the monetary velocity or related properties of Bitcoin have often attempted to either directly apply definitions from traditional macroeconomic theory or to use specialized metrics relative to the properties of the Blockchain such as bitcoin-days destroyed. In this...