Note: Seppuku in the Stockroom

Ernest Koenigsberg
Ernest Koenigsberg
Schools of Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 and Manalytics, Incorporated, 625 Third Street, San Francisco, California 94107
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Schools of Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 and Manalytics, Incorporated, 625 Third Street, San Francisco, California 94107

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Published Online:1 Aug 1985https://doi.org/10.1287/inte.15.4.86

Abstract

The problems of US industry are not those of inventory levels but those of “a failure of managerial competence (in production)” (to use the words of E. S. Buffa). It is the superior production systems that allow inventory reductions, and not the other way around.

Volume 15, Issue 4

July-August 1985

Pages 1-101

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Published Online:August 01, 1985

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Ernest Koenigsberg, (1985) Note: Seppuku in the Stockroom. Interfaces 15(4):86-88.

https://doi.org/10.1287/inte.15.4.86

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inventory/production: policies replacement

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