Consignment inventory offers retailers an opportunity to circumvent inventory purchasing costs. Consigning occurs when a retailer agrees to display and sell items that remain the property of the ...

Most understand the concept of selling on consignment, though few are aware that purchasing on consignment exists. Reverse consignment, sometimes known as pre-positioning, is a supply chain management ...

Crutches have their proper place in the healthcare supply chain – primarily in the supply closet for the physical therapy unit. While there are instances in a hospital environment where consignment ...

Maintaining appropriate inventory levels has always given manufacturers fits. They wage war against carrying too much costly product with tools such as lean manufacturing, which aspires to keep ...

Specialty pharmaceutical growth poses unique challenges for hospital pharmacies. Effectively managing these high-cost therapies that often have unpredictable demand requires a different inventory ...