In: Economics
The main objective of inventory management is to
maintain inventory at appropriate level to avoid
excessive or shortage of inventory because both the
cases are undesirable for business. Thus, management is faced with
the following conflicting objectives:
1. To keep inventory at sufficiently high level to perform
production and sales activities smoothly.
2. To minimize investment in inventory at minimum level to maximize
profitability.
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Assumptions of EOQ model