Spare parts are held to reduce the consequences of equipment downtime, playing an
important role in achieving the desired equipment availability at a minimum economic cost …

Purpose–Stock kee** unit (SKU) classifications are widely used in the field of production
and operations management. Although many theoretical and practical examples of …

This study aimed to empirically examine the impact of inventory management practice on
firms' competitiveness and organizational performance. Data for the study were collected …

A well-configured spare parts supply chain (SC) can reduce costs and increase the
competitiveness of spare parts retailers. A structured method for configuring spare parts SCs …

In modern business today, organizations that hold large numbers of inventory items, do not
find it economical to make policies for the management of individual inventory items …

Multi-criteria inventory classification groups inventory items into classes, each of which is
managed by a specific re-order policy according to its priority. However, the tasks of …

This paper proposes a spare part classification method based on item criticality. Starting
from a multi-criteria analysis, the proposed model converts relevant criteria impacting item …

Inventory managers often group inventory items into classes to manage and control them
more efficiently. The well-known ABC inventory classification approach categorizes …

In this paper, we present a method to use advance demand information (ADI), taking the
form of request for quotation (RFQ) data, in B2B sales forecasting. We apply supervised …

Retailers supply a wide range of stock kee** units (SKUs), which may differ for example in
terms of demand quantity, demand frequency, demand regularity, and demand variation …