Consignment inventory offers retailers an opportunity to circumvent inventory purchasing costs. Consigning occurs when a retailer agrees to display and sell items that remain the property of the ...

Most understand the concept of selling on consignment, though few are aware that purchasing on consignment exists. Reverse consignment, sometimes known as pre-positioning, is a supply chain management ...

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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 ...

Specialty pharmaceutical growth poses unique challenges for hospital pharmacies. Effectively managing these high-cost therapies that often have unpredictable demand requires a different inventory ...

Learn how RFID4U’s TagMatiks – FI (Field Inventory) platform and Zebra Technologies’ RFD8500 and RFD2000 readers can be used by companies in manufacturing, health care, fashion, energy and other ...

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 ...