LACK OF STOCKS RISK REDUCTION

Within the present market conditions, stock control is ranked among very complicated spheres. Stocks not only cover possible outages in deliveries but also mean cost burdens for the company. Lately, a number of companies makes effort to determine exactly the amount of the buffer stocks which can pro...

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Main Authors: Andrea Sikorová, Petr Besta, Petra Důbravová, Petr Prosický, Kateřina Kissová, Kateřina Machová
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 4S go, s.r.o. 2017-09-01
Series:Acta Logistica
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Online Access:http://actalogistica.eu/issues/2017/III_2017_03_Sikorova_Besta_Dubravova_Prosicky_Kissova_Machova.pdf
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Summary:Within the present market conditions, stock control is ranked among very complicated spheres. Stocks not only cover possible outages in deliveries but also mean cost burdens for the company. Lately, a number of companies makes effort to determine exactly the amount of the buffer stocks which can protect them against negative effects of the surrounding. Logical conceptions offer a possibility of the use of different instruments for the determination of the buffer stock. However, a number of them uses a complicated mathematical apparatus, which is unsuitable for the practical usage under the industrial conditions. This article deals with an analysis of the use of a simple operative instrument for the determination of the amount of the buffer stock. For the analytic part, data from selected industrial enterprises in the Czech Republic were used.
ISSN:1339-5629