The Role of the Stocks of Products in the Distribution Chain; Types of Specific Stocks
The Role of the Stocks of Products in the Distribution Chain; Types of Specific Stocks

Summary/Abstract: The major objective of the stocks’ management refers to the increase of incomes through revenues from selling the goods that exist on the distribution channels and the improving of the level of serving the clients. This happens in the circumstances of forming at the level of the outlets (distribution centers, sales deposits, etc) of stocks that are as small as possible, in the context of the constant preoccupation of continuously reducing the stocks, altogether with the improving of the selling service. The present paper intends to distinguish the means of actions through which this kind of objective can be achieved. The paper also mentions the typology of stocks which can be formed on the distribution chain, altogether with their role. The stocks’ dimensioning and forming is assured through a complex action of stock planning, of deciding using economic criteria the optimal level of the stocks. In order to do that, it is necessary to be known the essential elements (parameters) that must be taken into consideration, these parameters being presented in the paper altogether with specifying the methodology of planning the stocks from the distribution channels.

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