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Inventory control
Inventory Control
or
Stock control
can be broadly defined as "the activity of checking a shop’s stock". More specifically
inventory
control may refer to:
In
operations management
,
logistics
and
supply chain management
, the technological system and the programmed software necessary for managing inventory
In
economics
and
operations management
, the
inventory control problem
, which aims to reduce overhead cost without hurting sales. It answers the 3 basic questions of any supply chain: When? Where? How much?
In the field of
loss prevention
, systems designed to introduce technical barriers to
shoplifting
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