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Also known as stock

thumb|Electronics inventory Inventory (British English) or stock (American English) is a quantity of the goods and materials that a business holds for the ultimate goal of resale, production or utilisation.

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  • Business inventory
  • Reasons for keeping stock
  • Special terms used in dealing with inventory management
  • Typology
  • Inventory examples
  • Manufacturing
  • Capital projects
  • Defence inventory
  • Virtual inventory
  • Costs associated with inventory
  • Principle of inventory proportionality
  • Purpose
  • Applications
  • Roots
  • High-level inventory management
  • Accounting for inventory
  • Financial accounting
  • Role of inventory accounting
  • FIFO vs. LIFO accounting
  • Standard cost accounting
  • Theory of constraints cost accounting
  • National accounts
  • Distressed inventory
  • Stock rotation
  • Inventory credit
  • Journal
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • Further reading

thumb|Electronics inventory Inventory (British English) or stock (American English) is a quantity of the goods and materials that a business holds for the ultimate goal of resale, production or utilisation.

Inventory management is a discipline primarily about specifying the shape and placement of stocked goods. It is required at different locations within a facility or within many locations of a supply network to precede the regular and planned course of production and stock of materials.

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