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Inventory

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Inventory (American English) or stock (British English) is the goods and materials that a business holds for the ultimate goal of resale (or repair). [1]

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ABC analysis

In materials management, the ABC analysis (or Selective Inventory Control) is an inventory categorization technique.

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Accountant

An accountant is a practitioner of accounting or accountancy, which is the measurement, disclosure or provision of assurance about financial information that helps managers, investors, tax authorities and others make decisions about allocating resource(s).

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Accounting

Accounting or accountancy is the measurement, processing, and communication of financial information about economic entities such as businesses and corporations.

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American English

American English (AmE, AE, AmEng, USEng, en-US), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.

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Asset

In financial accounting, an asset is an economic resource.

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Average cost method

Under the 'Average Cost Method', it is assumed that the cost of inventory is based on the average cost of the goods available for sale during the period.

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Balance sheet

In financial accounting, a balance sheet or statement of financial position is a summary of the financial balances of an individual or organization, whether it be a sole proprietorship, a business partnership, a corporation, private limited company or other organization such as Government or not-for-profit entity.

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Bonded warehouse

A bonded warehouse, or bond, is a building or other secured area in which dutiable goods may be stored, manipulated, or undergo manufacturing operations without payment of duty.

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Book value

In accounting, book value is the value of an asset according to its balance sheet account balance.

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British English

British English is the standard dialect of English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom.

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Business

Business is the activity of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (goods and services).

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Business cycle

The business cycle, also known as the economic cycle or trade cycle, is the downward and upward movement of gross domestic product (GDP) around its long-term growth trend.

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Carrying cost

In marketing, carrying cost, carrying cost of inventory or holding cost refers to the total cost of holding inventory.

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Cash conversion cycle

In management accounting, the Cash conversion cycle (CCC) measures how long a firm will be deprived of cash if it increases its investment in inventory in order to expand customer sales.

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Changeover

In manufacturing, changeover is the process of converting a line or machine from running one product to another.

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Chevron Corporation

Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation.

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Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in San Jose, California, in the center of Silicon Valley, that develops, manufactures and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products.

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Collateral (finance)

In lending agreements, collateral is a borrower's pledge of specific property to a lender, to secure repayment of a loan.

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Commodity

In economics, a commodity is an economic good or service that has full or substantial fungibility: that is, the market treats instances of the good as equivalent or nearly so with no regard to who produced them.

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Consignment stock

Consignment stock is stock legally owned by one party, but held by another, meaning that the risk and rewards regarding to the said stock remains with the first party while the second party is responsible for distribution or retail operations.

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Consumer

A consumer is a person or organization that use economic services or commodities.

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Cost

In production, research, retail, and accounting, a cost is the value of money that has been used up to produce something or deliver a service, and hence is not available for use anymore.

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Cost accounting

Cost accounting is the process of recording, classifying, analyzing, summarizing, and allocating costs associated with a process, and then developing various courses of action to control the costs.

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Cost of goods sold

Cost of goods sold (COGS) refers to the carrying value of goods sold during a particular period.

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Current asset

In accounting, a current asset is any asset which can reasonably be expected to be sold, consumed, or exhausted through the normal operations of a business within the current fiscal year or operating cycle (whichever period is longer).

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Customer

In sales, commerce and economics, a customer (sometimes known as a client, buyer, or purchaser) is the recipient of a good, service, product or an idea - obtained from a seller, vendor, or supplier via a financial transaction or exchange for money or some other valuable consideration.

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Demand forecasting

Demand forecasting is the art and science of forecasting customer demand to optimize supply decisions by corporate supply chain and business management.

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Developing country

A developing country (or a low and middle income country (LMIC), less developed country, less economically developed country (LEDC), underdeveloped country) is a country with a less developed industrial base and a low Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.

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Distribution (marketing)

Distribution (or place) is one of the four elements of the marketing mix.

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Economic efficiency

Economic efficiency is, roughly speaking, a situation in which nothing can be improved without something else being hurt.

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Economic order quantity

In inventory management, economic order quantity (EOQ) is the order quantity that minimizes the total holding costs and ordering costs.

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Economies of scale

In microeconomics, economies of scale are the cost advantages that enterprises obtain due to their scale of operation (typically measured by amount of output produced), with cost per unit of output decreasing with increasing scale.

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Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Eliyahu Moshe Goldratt (March 31, 1947 – June 11, 2011) was an Israeli business management guru.

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Ending inventory

Ending inventory is the amount of inventory a company has in stock at the end of its fiscal year.

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Fashion

Fashion is a popular style, especially in clothing, footwear, lifestyle products, accessories, makeup, hairstyle and body.

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FIFO and LIFO accounting

FIFO and LIFO accounting are methods used in managing inventory and financial matters involving the amount of money a company has to have tied up within inventory of produced goods, raw materials, parts, components, or feed stocks.

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Financial accounting

Financial accounting (or financial accountancy) is the field of accounting concerned with the summary, analysis and reporting of financial transactions pertaining to a business.

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Financial Accounting Standards Board

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is a private, non-profit organization standard setting body whose primary purpose is to establish and improve generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) within the United States in the public's interest.

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Finished good

Finished goods are goods that have completed the manufacturing process but have not yet been sold or distributed to the end user.

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Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (UK)

Generally Accepted Accounting Practice in the UK, or UK GAAP, is the overall body of regulation establishing how company accounts must be prepared in the United Kingdom.

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Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (United States)

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, also called GAAP or US GAAP, is the accounting standard adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

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Insurance

Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss.

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Internal Revenue Code

The Internal Revenue Code (IRC), formally the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, is the domestic portion of federal statutory tax law in the United States, published in various volumes of the United States Statutes at Large, and separately as Title 26 of the United States Code (USC).

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International Financial Reporting Standards

International Financial Reporting Standards, usually called IFRS, are standards issued by the IFRS Foundation and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) to provide a common global language for business affairs so that company accounts are understandable and comparable across international boundaries.

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Inventory investment

Inventory investment is a component of gross domestic product (GDP).

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Inventory management software

Inventory management software is a software system for tracking inventory levels, orders, sales and deliveries.

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Inventory turnover

In accounting, the Inventory turnover is a measure of the number of times inventory is sold or used in a time period such as a year.

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Inventory valuation

An inventory valuation allows a company to provide a monetary value for items that make up their inventory.

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John Wiley & Sons

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, is a global publishing company that specializes in academic publishing.

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Just in Time

Just in Time may refer to.

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Just-in-time manufacturing

Just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing, also known as just-in-time production or the Toyota Production System (TPS), is a methodology aimed primarily at reducing flow times within production system as well as response times from suppliers and to customers.

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Land registration

Land registration generally describes systems by which matters concerning ownership, possession or other rights in land can be recorded (usually with a government agency or department) to provide evidence of title, facilitate transactions and to prevent unlawful disposal.

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Lead time

A lead time is the latency between the initiation and execution of a process.

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Lean manufacturing

Lean manufacturing or lean production, often simply "lean", is a systematic method for waste minimization ("Muda") within a manufacturing system without sacrificing productivity.

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Lower of cost or market

Lower of cost or market (LCM or LOCOM) is a conservative approach to valuing and reporting inventory.

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Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics (from the Greek prefix makro- meaning "large" and economics) is a branch of economics dealing with the performance, structure, behavior, and decision-making of an economy as a whole.

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Management accounting

In management accounting or managerial accounting, managers use the provisions of accounting information in order to better inform themselves before they decide matters within their organizations, which aids their management and performance of control functions.

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Manufacturing

Manufacturing is the production of merchandise for use or sale using labour and machines, tools, chemical and biological processing, or formulation.

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Marketing

Marketing is the study and management of exchange relationships.

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National accounts

National accounts or national account systems (NAS) are the implementation of complete and consistent accounting techniques for measuring the economic activity of a nation.

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New old stock

New old stock (NOS), also backronymed as "new on the shelf" or "new off the shelf", refers to obsolete equipment, or original parts (components) for obsolete equipment, that have never been sold at retail.

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Nonprofit organization

A non-profit organization (NPO), also known as a non-business entity or non-profit institution, is dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a shared point of view.

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Operations research

Operations research, or operational research in British usage, is a discipline that deals with the application of advanced analytical methods to help make better decisions.

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Outlet store

An outlet store, factory outlet or factory shop is a brick and mortar or online store in which manufacturers sell their stock directly to the public, cutting out the middle-men.

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Outline of industrial organization

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to industrial organization: Industrial organization – describes the behavior of firms in the marketplace with regard to production, pricing, employment and other decisions.

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Performance appraisal

A performance appraisal (PA), also referred to as a performance review, performance evaluation,Muchinsky, P. M. (2012).

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Petrolsoft Corporation

Petrolsoft Corporation (1989–2000) was a supply chain management software company with a focus on the petroleum industry.

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Pinch point (economics)

A pinch-point is the level of inventories of a commodity or product below which consumers of that commodity or product become concerned about security of supply.

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Project production management

Project production management (PPM) is the application of operations managementA Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, Fifth Edition, Project Management Institute Sec 1.5.1.1, p13 http://www.pmi.org/pmbok-guide-standards/foundational/pmbok to the delivery of capital projects.

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Purchasing

Purchasing refers to a business or organization attempting to acquire goods or services to accomplish its goals.

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Ratio

In mathematics, a ratio is a relationship between two numbers indicating how many times the first number contains the second.

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Raw material

A raw material, also known as a feedstock or most correctly unprocessed material, is a basic material that is used to produce goods, finished products, energy, or intermediate materials which are feedstock for future finished products.

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Reorder point

The reorder point (ROP) is the level of inventory which triggers an action to replenish that particular inventory stock.

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Retail

Retail is the process of selling consumer goods or services to customers through multiple channels of distribution to earn a profit.

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Safety stock

Safety stock is a term used by logisticians to describe a level of extra stock that is maintained to mitigate risk of stockouts (shortfall in raw material or packaging) caused by uncertainties in supply and demand.

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Sales

Sales is activity related to selling or the amount of goods or services sold in a given time period.

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Seasonality

In time series data, seasonality is the presence of variations that occur at specific regular intervals less than a year, such as weekly, monthly, or quarterly.

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Service level

Service level measures the performance of a system.

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Service provider

A service provider (SP) provides organizations with consulting, legal, real estate, communications, storage, processing.

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Shelf life

Shelf life is the length of time that a commodity may be stored without becoming unfit for use, consumption, or sale.

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Spare part

A spare part, spare, service part, repair part, or replacement part, is an interchangeable part that is kept in an inventory and used for the repair or replacement of failed units.

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Specific identification (inventories)

Specific identification is a method of finding out ending inventory cost.

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Stock keeping unit

In the field of inventory management, a stock keeping unit (SKU) is a distinct type of item for sale, such as a product or service, and all attributes associated with the item type that distinguish it from other item types.

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Stock management

Stock management is the function of understanding the stock mix of a company and the different demands on that stock.

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Theory of constraints

The theory of constraints (TOC) is a management paradigm that views any manageable system as being limited in achieving more of its goals by a very small number of constraints.

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Thor Power Tool Co. v. Commissioner

Thor Power Tool Company v. Commissioner,, was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld IRS regulations limiting how taxpayers could write down inventory.

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Throughput

In general terms, throughput is the maximum rate of production or the maximum rate at which something can be processed.

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Throughput (business)

Throughput is the movement of inputs and outputs through a production process.

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Throughput accounting

Throughput accounting (TA) is a principle-based and simplified management accounting approach that provides managers with decision support information for enterprise profitability improvement.

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Toyota

, usually shortened to Toyota, is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota, Aichi, Japan.

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Toyota Production System

The Toyota Production System (TPS) is an integrated socio-technical system, developed by Toyota, that comprises its management philosophy and practices.

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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government.

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VHS

The Video Home System (VHS) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes.

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Warehouse

A warehouse is a commercial building for storage of goods.

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Work in process

Work in process (WIP), work in progress (WIP), goods in process, or in-process inventory are a company's partially finished goods waiting for completion and eventual sale or the value of these items.

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Working capital

Working capital (abbreviated WC) is a financial metric which represents operating liquidity available to a business, organisation or other entity, including governmental entities.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventory

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