On the relationship between inventory and financial performance in manufacturing companies

Vedran Capkun (1) , Ari-Pekka Hameri , Lawrence A. Weiss

1 GREGH - Groupement de Recherche et d'Etudes en Gestion à HEC

The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between inventory performance, both total inventory (INV) and its discrete components (raw material (RMI), work-in-process (WIP), and finished goods (FGI)), and financial performance in manufacturing companies

Keywords: Financial performance; Inventory; Manufacturing industries; Process efficiency

Vedran Capkun, Ari-Pekka Hameri, Lawrence A. Weiss. On the relationship between inventory and financial performance in manufacturing companies. International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 2009, Vol. 29, n° 8, pp. 789-806. ⟨10.1108/01443570910977698⟩. ⟨hal-00466392⟩