Inventory Management in Textile and Apparel Merchandising

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2020 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, Bahir Dar University (Ethiopian Institute of Textile and Fashion Technology), language: English, abstract: This study aimed to analyze loss due to poor or improper inventory management in the Bahir Dar Textile Share Company (BDTSC). The study sought to find the inventory management techniques used by the spinning section at BDTSC established the level of effectiveness of inventory management.

It also determined the strength and weakness of the company, inventories the control system used, the police and procedure used, assessing the general material handling strategy in BDTSC at spinning section, the role of kaizen in the organization and the coordination of one department to the other in the organization.

The study adopted both a statistically and descriptive research design. The target population was store department, production department, kaizen case team department, planning, and programming department, marketing and selling department, cost and budgeting department, and purchase department.