When you run a business, looking at financial ratios can provide you with valuable information that can help you make decisions impacting the success of your enterprise. One of the important ratios ...

An organization holds inventory in the form of raw materials and finished goods. Inventory comprises the raw materials and finished goods held by the organization during a given period. From an ...

Think of inventory turns as a measure of how well a company’s products are doing in the market and how well its inventory is managed. The term basically captures the number of times per year ...

Think of inventory turns as a measure of how well a company’s products are doing in the market and how well its inventory is managed. The term basically captures the number of times per year ...

Though Costco (NASDAQ: COST) may be known for "frills" like above-average employee pay, when it comes to managing its balance sheet, it is ruthlessly efficient. This can be observed in the company's ...

For the past decade or more, that edict has been a key driving force in manufacturing management. Inventory ties up capital, and carrying excess inventory is expensive. In the U.S., inventory-carrying ...

Tesla lags behind the auto manufacturing heavyweights on one key metric. What does that mean for the electric vehicle maker? This figure is especially important given that Tesla is about to begin what ...

A report from research firm Gartner says that Apple has an inventory turn metric of 74, which means that the iPad maker turns over its entire inventory once every five days, a staggering number for a ...

NEW YORK — Meijer, Grand Rapids, Mich., has found that by implementing systems, processes and organizational changes over the past year which enable it to better predict and respond to consumer ...

There’s no magic formula for knowing how much inventory to carry, but there are best practices and calculations to follow. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising ...

Inventory is typically a retailer’s biggest asset. After all, the only way that retailers stay in business is to sell goods: the faster and more profitably, the better. Today, however, unsold ...

While Burlington’s store inventory actually increased slightly, at 2% in Q3, the decline in its reserve inventory drove the overall decrease in stock levels. Burlington’s reserve inventory mainly ...