Inventory Optimization
How much inventory do you need? It is all about supply, costs, and demand.
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11 min readFeb 13, 2021
As explained in my book Inventory Optimization: Models & Simulation, for better or for worse, inventories lie everywhere in supply chains. The central question of how much inventory is needed and where it is needed is often an endless debate among colleagues, especially when the game of politics (rather than quantitative/qualitative analysis) drives decisions.