Inventory Control

Inventory Control is an operations management function that determines optimal ordering policies and inventory levels to minimize total relevant costs while satisfying product demand.

12.2K

Publications

691K

Citations

14.9K

Authors

3.6K

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

2.9K

Parents

Industrial Engineering

Children

Abc AnalysisContinuous Review SystemsDeterministic Inventory ModelsEconomic Order QuantityInventory AuditingInventory ClassificationInventory Cost AnalysisInventory Record AccuracyInventory ValuationLead Time Management

Publications

12.2K

Information Distortion in a Supply Chain: The Bullwhip Effect

Hau L. Lee, Vineet Padmanabhan, Seungjin Whang · Management Science · 1997 · 4.7K citations

Management, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management +16

Inventory management and production planning and scheduling

Journal of Manufacturing Systems · 1999 · 2.8K citations

Management, Industrial Engineering, Operations Management +14

The Transactions Demand for Cash: An Inventory Theoretic Approach

William J. Baumöl · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1952 · 2.4K citations

Management, Business Economics, Economics +12

Analysis of Inventory Systems.

Arthur F. Veinott, G. Hadley, T. M. Whitin · Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1964 · 2.4K citations

Management, Industrial Engineering, Operations Management +12

Forecasting Sales by Exponentially Weighted Moving Averages

Peter R. Winters · Management Science · 1960 · 2.1K citations

Management, Operations Management, Forecasting +10

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Authors

14.9K

LE
Leopoldo Eduardo Cárdenas‐Barrón
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
96 publications · 6.4K citations
51
h-index
BS
Biswajit Sarkar
Yonsei University, South Korea
81 publications · 5.1K citations
43
h-index
LO
Liang‐Yuh Ouyang
Tamkang University, Taiwan
78 publications · 5.4K citations
43
h-index
JT
Jinn‐Tsair Teng
William Paterson University, United States
63 publications · 5.1K citations
43
h-index
HW
Hui‐Ming Wee
Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan
88 publications · 6K citations
42
h-index

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Institutions

3.6K

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Venues

Management Science
580 publications · 88K citations
153
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European Journal of Operational Research
847 publications · 60.1K citations
120
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Operations Research
502 publications · 48.5K citations
119
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International Journal of Production Economics
900 publications · 55.3K citations
114
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International Journal of Production Research
593 publications · 29.8K citations
82
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See also Inventory Control
Ordering Policies	Economic Order Quantity Reorder Point Periodic Review Systems Continuous Review Inventory Policies Continuous Review Replenishment Base Stock Systems (S, S) Policy Economic Production Quantity Model Order Up-to Policies
Cost Tradeoffs	Setup Cost Cost Of Capital Ordering Cost Holding Costs Shortage Cost
Demand Modeling	Demand Forecasting Markov Chains Exponential Smoothing Poisson Distribution Inventory Effects On Demand Demand Theory Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average Gaussian Distributions Compound Poisson Processes Markov-modulated Poisson Processes
Service Metrics	Fill Rate
Stock Classification	Abc Analysis Analytic Hierarchy Process Shannon Entropy Analytic Network Process Data Envelopment Analysis Explainable Artificial Intelligence Semi-supervised Clustering K-means Clustering