Wholesale nursery surveys reveal inventory, customers and business practices

Nursery Practices

Inventory inaccuracies in the wholesale supply chain

The inventory level shown in the Information System contrary to popular belief and assumptions in most academic papers and in spite of the considerable amounts invested in information technology, is often inaccurate. The inventory inaccuracy occurs when the inventory shown in the Information System is not in agreement with the actually available inventory. In this paper, we first describe the m...

U.S. Retail and Wholesale Inventory Performance from 1981 to 2004

T paper examines the inventories of publicly traded U.S. retail and wholesale companies between 1981 and 2004. First, we document that inventory holdings have been reduced. The median of wholesale inventory holding periods was reduced from 73 days to 49 days. Retail inventory did not start to decline until about 1995. Second, we document that firms with abnormally high inventories have abnormal...

Customers Confidence in E-business: An Evaluation of Australian Practices - A Case Study

Many Internet users perceive that there is a large risk to their privacy and security when they buy products and services or submit personal information online. Although the perception of risk may be greater than the actual risk, it is still a cause for concern. An e-business must address customers’ perceived risk just as much as any actual risks. In other words, the issue of trust is fundament...

Perishable Inventory System with Postponed Demands and Negative Customers

This article considers a continuous review perishable (s,S) inventory system in which the demands arrive according to a Markovian arrival process (MAP). The lifetime of items in the stock and the lead time of reorder are assumed to be independently distributed as exponential. Demands that occur during the stock-out periods either enter a pool which has capacity N(<∞) or are lost. Any demand tha...