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Inventory management is generally recognised to be of sufficient importance to warrant the appointment of a person to carry specific responsibility for it; possibly along with other areas of the distribution function. Preferably, inventory should be seen as one component of distribution, interacting as it does with all the elements contained therein. This monograph has not been written for the analyst but rather for the person responsible for taking inventory decisions. The aim is to present a general description of the main problem areas and to describe procedures by which the problems can be resolved. Given a broad appreciation a useful dialogue may then be set up with the analyst and more effective use made of the large quantity of data which is invariably available in the distribution field.

An account of an experiment undertaken by Joan Simpson, Howard Keith Thomas and a group of ONC Business Studies students at the North Oxfordshire Technical College, Banbury, in January 1971.

This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/eb044877. When citing the article, please cite: Richard L Davies, Keith Howard, (1981), “A Manpower Planning Model for Small Groups”, International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 2 Iss 4 pp. 32 - 36.

To provide an outline of an editor's experiences in the early years of publishing IJOPM.

Provides a brief summary of the author's experiences.

Being a new journal, it was found that there was insufficient copy, and this was not helped by the limited number of potential authors. However, the objective of increasing the number of issues in a volume was achieved by the publication of an extra issue each year from 1985 to 1993, with papers of quality. Editorship of a journal subject to the scrutiny of academics is a challenging task.

Provides an introduction to the special issue.

The purpose of this chapter is to critically analyze the historical relations between Black students and the American education system. In particular, this chapter is designed to challenge the status quo and examine the ways in which the K-12 educators today can mind the margins and remedy oppressive approaches to academically preparing and supporting Black students. Persistent informal educational tracking practices, an influx of education programs designed to segregate students, and educator biases all raise critical questions that must be addressed concerning educational equity for Black students.

In the last four years, since Volume I of this Bibliography first appeared, there has been an explosion of literature in all the main functional areas of business. This wealth of material poses problems for the researcher in management studies — and, of course, for the librarian: uncovering what has been written in any one area is not an easy task. This volume aims to help the librarian and the researcher overcome some of the immediate problems of identification of material. It is an annotated bibliography of management, drawing on the wide variety of literature produced by MCB University Press. Over the last four years, MCB University Press has produced an extensive range of books and serial publications covering most of the established and many of the developing areas of management. This volume, in conjunction with Volume I, provides a guide to all the material published so far.

A new approach to the problems of product line strategy and inventory investment decisions

The terms “inventory” and “stock” are usually seen as being synonymous and are used to describe materials which can be identified at various stages of the transformation process in organisations. It is customary to divide inventory into three categories:

The librarian and researcher have to be able to uncover specific articles in their areas of interest. This Bibliography is designed to help. Volume IV, like Volume III, contains features to help the reader to retrieve relevant literature from MCB University Press' considerable output. Each entry within has been indexed according to author(s) and the Fifth Edition of the SCIMP/SCAMP Thesaurus. The latter thus provides a full subject index to facilitate rapid retrieval. Each article or book is assigned its own unique number and this is used in both the subject and author index. This Volume indexes 29 journals indicating the depth, coverage and expansion of MCB's portfolio.

The log‐normal distribution provides a powerful decision tool for assessing the impact of marketing policies upon inventory allocations.