The inventory turnover ratio helps businesses and investors understand how many times, in a given period, items have been sold and restocked by a company. Find out why it matters.

The economic order quantity, or EOQ, is the optimal number of units a business should purchase when replenishing inventory while minimizing inventory costs that could eat into profit margins.

Floor planning allows dealers to finance expensive cars to have as inventory, essentially saving them from buying the car outright. Those loans are repaid with interest when the vehicles are sold ...

4. Inventory cost vs. availability Maintaining an extensive inventory ties up capital and requires significant storage space, but running too lean can lead to operational delays.

Under RIM accounting, cost spikes are reflected in the retail-to-cost ratio but not at the item level, leading to broader adjustments in markups, he said. Enter today’s U.S. tariff policy, where ...

But retailers in the U.S. are increasingly rethinking RIM because the cost method’s specificity provides a clearer picture of inventory and margins, with implications for a host of retail ...

Large, Late Merchandise Orders Are Raising Companies’ Inventory Costs Transit delays are stranding billions of dollars in goods in congested supply chains, leaving companies in a cash crunch By ...