Inventory Management

Inventory management is the operational discipline of planning and controlling inventory levels across supply chain stages to optimize the balance between fulfilling customer demand and minimizing total inventory costs including holding and shortage expenses.

14.9K

Publications

835.2K

Citations

19.3K

Authors

4.3K

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

3.8K

Parents

Decision SciencesIndustrial EngineeringOperations ManagementRetail ManagementSupply Chain Management

Children

Abc AnalysisConsignment InventoryContinuous Review SystemsCycle CountingEconomic Order QuantityInventory AuditingInventory ClassificationInventory Control PoliciesInventory OptimizationInventory Record Accuracy

Publications

14.9K

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

Force concept inventory

David Hestenes, Gregg Swackhamer · The Physics Teacher · 1992 · 3.2K citations

Management, Operations Management, Inventory Management +1

Inventory management and production planning and scheduling

Journal of Manufacturing Systems · 1999 · 2.8K citations

Management, Industrial Engineering, Operations Management +14

Monetary Policy, Business Cycles, and the Behavior of Small Manufacturing Firms

Mark Gertler, Simon Gilchrist · The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 1994 · 2.6K citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Business Economics, Economics +16

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

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Authors

19.3K

LE
Leopoldo Eduardo Cárdenas‐Barrón
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
98 publications · 6.3K citations
50
h-index
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Biswajit Sarkar
Yonsei University, South Korea
88 publications · 5.1K citations
44
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HW
Hui‐Ming Wee
Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan
92 publications · 6.2K citations
43
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KC
Kripasindhu Chaudhuri
Jadavpur University, India
81 publications · 5K citations
42
h-index
AA
Ata Allah Taleizadeh
University of Tehran, Iran
70 publications · 4.1K citations
42
h-index

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Institutions

4.3K

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Venues

Management Science
642 publications · 97.4K citations
163
h-index
Operations Research
549 publications · 54.8K citations
125
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European Journal of Operational Research
922 publications · 64.1K citations
123
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International Journal of Production Economics
982 publications · 61.2K citations
122
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International Journal of Production Research
778 publications · 39.3K citations
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See also Inventory Management
Core Methods	Demand Forecasting Replenishment Policies Abc Analysis Enterprise Resource Planning Genetic Algorithms Markov Decision Processes Multi-agent Systems Manufacturing Resource Planning C4.5 Algorithm Reinforcement Learning
Optimization Models	Dynamic Programming Economic Order Quantity Reinforcement Learning Multi-echelon Stock Optimization Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning Order Up-to Policies
Demand Forecasting	Demand Forecasting Exponential Smoothing Time Series Forecasting Bayesian Forecasting Xgboost Aggregate Demand Forecasting
Performance Metrics	Inventory Turnover Holding Costs Inventory Accuracy Shortage Cost Inventory Service Level Mean Absolute Error Order Fulfillment Speed Order Accuracy
Operational Contexts	Omnichannel Fulfillment Distribution Networks Warehousing Management Retail Environment Design