Provides context and exercises to introduce retail inventory management, including cost optimization, service level criteria and forecasting in single and multi-configuration. The owner of one arrangement of paper and paper products store believes that the effects of expansion for inventory management. Solutions include lost sales, retail rates for multi-parameters and constraints on the shelves.
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by Noel Watson Source: Harvard Business School 11 pages. Publication Date: July 19, 2005. Prod. #: 606023-PDF-ENG
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