Common items tend to be produced for inventory, at low cost due to large production runs. Unusual or unique items are produced upon order, usually with much higher costs.

RIT is legally required to maintain an inventory of the chemicals used campus, track where those chemicals are used, and ensure that the safety information regarding handling and storage of them is ...

Long-Geng Zhao, Hon-Shiang Lau, Reducing Inventory Costs and Choosing Suppliers with Order Splitting, The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 43, No. 10 (Oct., 1992), pp. 1003-1008 ...

Intuit has made another acquisition to help position itself as the go-to place for small and medium businesses to run their offices in the cloud: it has bought Lettuce, a platform for companies to ...