While it's best to have everything in stock that a customer may need, it can be expensive buying and keeping items around that may be needed only rarely or which can grow obsolete before sale. One ...

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Maintaining appropriate inventory levels has always given manufacturers fits. They wage war against carrying too much costly product with tools such as lean manufacturing, which aspires to keep ...

Crutches have their proper place in the healthcare supply chain – primarily in the supply closet for the physical therapy unit. While there are instances in a hospital environment where consignment ...

Some retail stores do not purchase goods from distributors and resell the goods; they accept them on consignment. Accepting goods on consignment is an alternative method to supplying merchandise in a ...

Storing consigned inventory in Switzerland is expensive for Horix Aerospace, but the company still sees market advantages to the practice. Credit: Horix Aerospace Managing surplus material on a ...

For the second year in a row, hospital and health system CEOs ranked cost containment as one of their top three strategic priorities, according to the Advisory Board Annual Health Care CEO survey. The ...

Limited visibility to field and consigned inventory has significant impacts on business decisions for medical device manufacturers and their distributors. RFID, as well as cloud platforms and consumer ...

TEMECULA, CA--(Marketwired - Dec 17, 2013) - On Monday, December 9, 2013, FFF Enterprises launched its VERIFIED™ Inventory Program-Consignment (VIPc) at the Midyear Meeting of the American Society of ...