The Importance Of Inventory Management

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Inventory Management is a highly discussed topic in the operations management field. It is important for any businesses to track their inventory levels, orders, sales and deliveries. It is essential to maintain the right balance of stock, so a company won’t lose a sale. Additionally, if an organization had too much inventory it can result to profit losses. I will be referencing to three publications of David Pyke’s articles on the topic of inventory management. In all three articles, he does not solely write and conduct the research on his own, therefore there are multiple authors including himself. The three publications are, “Sales and Operations Planning: An Exploratory Study and Frame Work.” “The Context and Importance of Inventory Management…show more content…
Moreover, in his other research, he recommends six decision categories for controlling inventories, which include: cycle stock, congestion stock, safety stock, anticipation inventories, pipeline inventories, and decoupling inventories. The purpose of this recommendation is to focus on organizational purposes of the inventories rather than accounting measures. These frameworks were “designed to help reduce the complexity of managing thousands of items” (Silver,…show more content…
One of the articles is more recent that the other two which date back to 2004 and 2007. I believe that the scholar’s interest did not change over time, but Pyke, has gain more interest in other branches of inventory management. He still continues to discuss the topic of inventory management; however, each article has its own purpose. From “The Context” article, he solely focuses on the importance of inventory management and production planning. He also mentions decision making in production, inventory, and supply chain management. The other publication, “Smart Pricing,” he put his attention towards a few topics such as revenue management, retail markdowns, management advancements, and dynamic pricing. However, he does mention a little about production planning and S&OP, which was discussed in the third publication. In the third publication, “Sales and Operations Planning,” he mainly focuses on sales and operations planning framework. Between the “The Sales and Operations Planning” and the “Smart Pricing” articles I was able to see that the scholar reference to the same sources, but not for “The Context” article. I would say that the conversations between scholars would be about their findings and studies. A scholarly conversation presents the similarities and differences between one’s writing. These scholars would combine their work in order to create
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