Setting Aggregate Inventory Levels: An Operations Management Decision?

Abstract

Five hundred financial executives from North American companies were surveyed by means of a mailed questionnaire to gain a view from outside the operations functions of the basis on which aggregate inventory decisions are taken. The response indicated that more functions than might have been expected were involved in the process of determining inventory levels and, partly because of this, policy tended to be of a shorter rather than longer term nature.

Citation

Gaither, N. and Fraser, D.R. (1984), "Setting Aggregate Inventory Levels: An Operations Management Decision?", International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 4 No. 1, pp. 18-33. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb054705