An Evaluation of Inventory Management and Performance in Indian Machine Tool SMEs: An Exploratory Study

Rajeev, N (2008) An Evaluation of Inventory Management and Performance in Indian Machine Tool SMEs: An Exploratory Study. In: 4th IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology, 2008. ICMIT 2008., 21-24 Sept. 2008, Bankok, Thailand, pp. 1412-1417.

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Abstract

Inventory Management (IM) plays a decisive role in the enhancement of efficiency and competitiveness of manufacturing enterprises. Therefore, major manufacturing enterprises are following IM practices as a strategy to improve efficiency and achieve competitiveness. However, the spread of IM culture among Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is limited due to lack of initiation, expertise and financial limitations in developed countries, leave alone developing countries. With this backdrop, this paper makes an attempt to ascertain the role and importance of IM practices and performance of SMEs in the machine tools industry of Bangalore, India. The relationship between inventory management practices and inventory cost are probed based on primary data gathered from 91 SMEs. The paper brings out that formal IM practices have a positive impact on the inventory performance of SMEs.

Item Type:	Conference Paper
Publisher:	IEEE
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Keywords:	IM practices;Inventory cost per sales;Inventory turn over ratio;SMEs.
Department/Centre:	Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences > Management Studies
Date Deposited:	01 May 2009 04:52
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 05:27
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/19209

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