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Time-phased order points.

P Spedding
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Many software packages designed for material management in health care unfortunately only offer the option of fixed or historically calculated re-order points for inventory planning. This article describes a technique called the time-phased order point that is appropriate for industries, such as health care, in which materiel usage cannot be tied to a production plan or other schedule of events. It also provides numerous examples of the use of this technique as an aid in understanding how it works.

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P Spedding. 1997. Time-phased order points.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10173998/

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