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The biggest sales day of the year is fast approaching, people every where going wild, how does a manager or supervisor plan inventory for such event? What will be the best strategy for a retailer to get such crowd through the check out counter, starting from the time the doors are open? For such volume of people, what type of planning needed?

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The solution examines the biggest sales of the year. How to plan inventory and strategies for crowd controls are examined.

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The Biggest Sales Day Of The Year:

Managing inventory for the big sales day is considered as a hard task which has to be carried out by an organization's manager or supervisors. The reason behind this is the fact that inventory has to be effectively managed to ensure that the customers have what they need at all times without the organization having much excess or running out of inventory (How to control inventory, n.d).

Planning inventory for the big sales day will require that a manager determines the best inventory management method to employ for such an event ...

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