Saturday, December 15, 2012

Inventory


Maureen Megawati Suroso (223412033)
D3 MLM-A STMT Trisakti (Inventory: Business Inventory)

Summary
The flow in the inventory business
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There are three basic reasons for keeping an inventory

1. ensure that the company does not run out of inventory so as not nengakibatkan cessation of production.
2. Maintain inventory formation by prusahaan not too big or excess costs incurred in order to be not too big.
3. Keeping small purchases can be avoided, as this will increase the cost of the booking.

TERMS used in the inventory

-         SKU (stock keeping unit) is, Warehousing unique item because some characteristics (such as brand, color model size), and should be kept and accounted for separately from other items.
-         NOS (New Old Stock) This term refers to merchandise being offered for sale are manufactured long ago but that has never been used. Goods can not be produced anymore, and the new old stock may be the only source of current market certain goods.

Although not an accounting term officially recognized, it is commonly used in the auction and retail industries. For example, an antique vehicle owners looking for NOS parts from specific vendors are required to keep their car, motorcycle, truck or operations or in factory-original condition.

Example: For example, an antique vehicle owners looking for NOS parts from specific vendors are required to keep their car, motorcycle, truck or operations or in factory-original condition.



Typology Inventory in Business

1.     Batch stock / inventory lot size: the provision of large amounts of deposits with consideration discounts on the purchase price, because of the efficiency of the production process of the old and the savings in transportation costs.
2.     2. Anticipation: is a function of storage supplies to rescue delay the arrival of the goods from the supplier. The goal is to keep the flow / process to run smoothly.
3.     3. Decoupling: that is a function of the operational stockpile separately.


Anticipation stock, that is the way to build an extra effort to increase demand periods. For example, create a product that a lot of ice cream in the summer.
Pipeline stock (stock pipe), the goods have left the warehouse company, but has not been purchased by the end consumer, customer, or user, and therefore the company is still in the distribution chain. Also called plumbing supplies.


While accountants often discuss inventory in terms of goods for sale, organizations, manufacturers, providers also have supplies (equipment, furniture, fixtures, etc.) tapimereka not intend to sell. Manufacturers, distributors, and wholesale inventories, they tend to cluster or put it in storage.

Conclusion: Procurement of supplies must be considered as directly related to the cost to the company as a result of the inventory. Therefore, the existing inventory must be balanced with the need, because the stock is too much will result in the company bears the risk of damage and high storage costs in addition to the cost of investments. But if there is shortage of supply will result in disruption of the smooth production process. Therefore expected to be a balance in the procurement of supplies so that costs can be kept to a minimum and can expedite the process of the production.