سؤال قراءة ستيب محلول — فهم التفاصيل (تدريب 6026)

(1) Inventory, or the amount of material a company holds. Can affect customer satisfaction. Here, managers must maintain the delicate balance between carrying too little inventory and carrying too much. With too little stock. The firm risks not having products which customers want to buy. To remedy this, the firm may need costly emergency shipments or production. Carrying too much inventory results in higher-than-necessary inventory-carrying costs and out-of-date stock. Thus, in managing inventory, firms must balance the costs of carrying larger inventories against resulting sales and profits. (2) Many companies have greatly reduced their inventories and related costs though just-in-time logistics systems with such systems, producers and retailers carry only small inventories of points or merchandise, often only enough for a few days of operations. New stock arrives exactly when needed, rather than being stored in inventory until being used. Just-in-time systems acquire accurate forecasting along with fast, frequent and flexible delivery so that new supplies will be available when needed. However, these systems result in substantial savings in inventory-carrying and handling Costs. (3) Marketers are always looking for new ways to make inventory management more efficient in the not-too- distant future. Handling inventory might even become fully automated. For example, smart tag teclmology.by which small transmitter clips are embedded more placed on products and packaging on everything from flowers and razors to tires. Smart products could make the entire supply chain - which accounts for nearly 75 percent of a product’s cost intelligent and automated.