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- Uday Bansode
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Introduction
Constitute significant part of current assets
A considerable amount of fund is required
Effective and efficient management is imperative to avoid
unnecessary investment
Improper inventory management affects long term profitability
and may fail ultimately
10 to 20% of inventory can be reduced without any adverse
effect on production and sales by using simple inventory planning
and control techniques
Function
Inventory functions as a bank and decouples successive stages of operations.
Operating sub-systems Materials, Manufacturing and Marketing
Non-operating sub-systems Finance and Personnel
Inventory Problem
Inventory problem is one of balancing various costs so that total
cost should be minimized. These costs are :Cost of ordering - Cost of carrying Quotation or tendering Warehousing or storage
Requisitioning
Handling
Order Placing
Clerical and staff
Transportation
Insurance
Receiving inspecting & Storing Interest
Quality control
Deterioration, wastage
Clerical and staff Taxes
Under stocking and Overstocking cost Loss of sale
Failure to meet delivery commitments
follow-
work-in-
in storage
scheduled intervals
consumption pattern
to control obsolescence
Example:
Minimum daily requirement 800 units. Time required to receive emergency
supplies 4 days. Avg daily requirement 700 units. Min. daily requirement
600 units. Time required for refresh supplies One month (30 days).
Calculate ordering point or re-order level.
Calculation:
Ordering point = Ordering point or re-order level = Maximum daily or
weekly or monthly usage Lead time
= 800 30
= 24,000 units
4.
Economic Order Quantity is one of the techniques of inventory control which minimizes
total holding and ordering costs for the year.
Definition of EOQ :EOQ is essentially an accounting formula that determines at which the combination of
order, costs and inventory carrying cost are at the least.
EOQ Formula :- EOQ or D = 2Q(a) / c
Where,
Q = Annual requirements in units
a = Unit cost of placing an order
c = Annual carrying cost
D = Optimum lot quantity or Batch Size
Order
Qty
Avg
Stock
Holding
Inventory Ordering
carrying
cost (Rs.)
cost (Rs)
Total Cost
(Rs.)
40,000
20,000
4,000
10
4,010
20,000
10,000
2,000
20
2,020
13,333
6,667
1,333
30
1,363
10,000
5,000
1,000
40
1,040
8,000
4,000
800
50
850
10
4,000
2,000
400
100
500
15
2,667
1,334
267
150
417
20
2,000
1,000
200
200
400
25
1,600
800
160
250
410
30
1,333
667
133
300
Amount
(Rs.)
% of Total
0-20
December
11
10,000
20
21-40
December
7
5,000
10
41-60
November
21
3,000
61-80
November
5
25,000
50
81 and
October 20
7000
14
Thank You