Properly managing inventory requires a system of some sort. It doesn't matter if the system consists of writing inventory levels on the back of an envelope or using the most sophisticated radio ...

The University of Southern California (USC) housing office knew its housing facilities, on and off campus, had upwards of 60,000 pieces of furniture and appliances. But until the student housing ...

A periodic inventory system uses a manual inventory count at the end of the year. This amount, labeled ending inventory, becomes the beginning inventory for the next year. Purchases of new inventory ...

Jeff Flener spent more than four years trying to convince Rockford Fosgate Corp.'s chief financial officer to invest $16,000 in an automated materials replenishment supply chain tool. Flener, an ...