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However, forecast errors will also lead to unhappy customers, lost sales, and excessive inventory. To minimize errors, retailers should find the right demand forecast. Retailers do not want to have a lot of inventory sitting in the back room and too little inventory that will cause out of stock. Holding huge inventory will cause a retailer to have more expenses and decrease their profit if item is not sold especially if the product is innovative type like electronics. The challenge is to balance the inventory with demand. Communication and contribution from people in functional area is also important to create better information and improve overall accuracy. At this time, customer satisfaction will start to decrease. For example, MPRNews says one of Target loyal customer, Ann Hendricks, she is disappointed with target store in St.Paul. “Too many times, she says that store is out of the milk, coffee, bread, pasta and other staples she wants. At Target, sometimes the whole section of cheeses is blank. There's nothing in there” (Moylan). A loyal customer like Ann Hendricks goes to the Lunds & Byerlys store in downtown St. Paul to buy her grocery

Lowering the inventory would likely result in decreasing the currently unacceptable levels of customer service by removing that estimation buffer. Thus, without the reengineering of the production processes, the attempts to change the inventory levels may fail.

330-10-30330-10-30-1 The primary basis of accounting for inventories is cost, which has been defined generally as the price paid or consideration given to acquire an asset. As applied to inventories, cost means in principle the sum of the applicable expenditures and charges directly or indirectly incurred in bringing an article to its existing condition and location. It is understood to mean acquisition and production cost, and its determination involves many considerations. 330-10-30330-10-30-2 Although principles for the determination of inventory costs may be easily stated, their application, particularly to such inventory items as work in process and finished goods, is difficult because of the variety of considerations in the allocation of costs and charges.

The customers, wholesalers and retailers may order in large quantities with the expectation that they will receive a greater allocation of products that are in short supply. The impact on the supply chain is significant as the forecasted demand is greatly, and unrealistically, increased with these inflated orders. Eventually orders disappear and cancellations pour in, making it impossible for the manufacturer to determine the real demand for its products

Safety and health concerns are posed by these “nonconforming” products. Medication can be used as an example. The “unapproved” medication can be made cheaper in Mexico, for example, and not held to the Federal Drug Administration standards of safety. When a person takes this medication the dosages can be too high or too small which can gravely affect the outcomes for a person’s life. This has and is happening in the United States from these “improperly modified”

Standard items are not tried in-house at provider premises according to Alpha Omega quality details subsequently when such "standard items" touch base at CXO stockroom, there is a high shot of them flopping in quality particulars as determined by Alpha Omega prompting to high reject rate which clarifies poor execution on Quality parameter. Poor conjecture precision additionally prompts to great issues of high stock and deals misfortunes as plants are not ready to gauge accurately their necessities to providers. With poor perceivability into necessities, the conveyance lead times are taking a hit as providers need to modify their operations to consider the high fluctuation amongst conjecture and genuine requests prompting to hit on "Convenience" and "Amount" parameter. In addition with strict quality arrangement of testing each item, poor conjecture precision is prompting to high in-process stock levels as support levels increment when the perceivability is poor. So if Guy looks and tries to address this issue of poor figure exactness and tries to enhance it, he can see quick change in wellbeing of included

The greatest challenge faced by many organizations today and especially the labour intensive industries is ensuring there is a sustainable

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There is poor communication between the manufacturer, suppliers and retailers. There is a lack of sharing inventory cost and demand information for inventory-planning purposes. I think there is miscalculated impression that revenue depends on sales alone.

But let’s take a look closely at what is inventory in certain industries. Inventory in the agricultural industry is the growing crops, developing animals held for sale, harvested crops, livestock held for sale, and secondary products like calves from dairy herds and wool from sheep. In the airline industry, the inventory is used for own consumption which sets it apart from the original definition of inventory. Their inventory curtails mainly of spare parts and materials and supplies to be used in the operation of the airline. For contractors that are into construction, inventory is the small tools that are used in the construction activities. For software, the inventory is the tools and technological products associated with the production of computer software. These are a few scenarios of what is inventory in some industries. Let’s see now some issues associated with inventory, the historical aspects pertaining to U.S. GAAP and IFRS, revenue recognition and measurement rules, presentation and disclosures, and any upcoming developments that affect inventory.

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Berman et al (2006) identified inventory and transportation as two key contributors of supply chain total cost. They require keen attention for supply chain efficiency to be realized. Inventory costs include; Capital cost that forms the largest factor of inventory carrying cost. Companies must balance money held inform of inventory and money required for daily operations. Inventory is treated as an asset in the balance sheet hence attracts taxation from most governments. To cover against loss and damages, insurance premiums are paid. When inventory utilization is slower than expected there is a likely hood of obsolesce. This reduces the actual value of that inventory. There is also storage costs incurred in form of rent or lease of the space stocks are held. Inventory also attracts fixed costs that do not change with the volume of inventory kept. These are calculated as warehousing costs such as utilities and wage (Goldsby et al. 2005)

A sustainable work system is created with the purpose of expanding assets in human and social capital while attaining working purposes and financial goals. This system aims to equalize dynamic and static efficiencies which are subsequent to a healthier economic system. The most practical service a sustainable work system provides is the ability to encourage and continue to construct progress of resources such as economic, ecological, human and social aspects used in companies. The participation of employees and the consideration of time are significant in the formation of a sustainable work system. Recognition that sustainability is a process and acknowledging that modifications of the work system will be a constant occurrence offers advantage when

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1.Inventory carrying cost is generally seen as the cost associated with goods, materials and components at rest. There are various components that make up carrying cost. The four components of inventory carrying costs are;