Whitepaper Economic Order Quantity

Whether it consists of raw materials or end-products: inventory is unavoidably one of the largest single assets on your balance sheet. In the manufacturing industry, around 37% of total costs consist of inventory costs, while for retailers and wholesalers even more than half of the total costs are caused by inventory. Owning, maintaining, and managing inventory costs a lot of effort and money. However, you need to have enough in stock to deliver customer service: no inventory, no deal. This paper discusses an indispensable inventory management figure: the economic order quantity.

Our partner Slimstock published a whitepaper ‘Unraveling the secret of optimal order quantities’.