Keyword: «commodity stocks»

The paper discusses commodity management. The authors describe comparative characteristic of the sys-tems studied accounting goods (in particular bar codes and RFID technology); show the efficiency of use of RFID technology in the enterprise.

The article reveals the main trends of the modern world market, which influence the commercial activities of the organizations that are on the foreign markets. There are Basic classifications of commodity stocks (on the basis of different criteria) are given. Their importance for enterprises is proved. Inventory management systems are presented and the relevance of their formation is stated.

The article deals with the problem of commodity inventory management in the pharmaceutical business, features of analysis and planning of commodity stocks in pharmacies. The method of combined ABC-XYZ-analysis, which is used to optimize the structure of the pharmacy assortment with the purpose of further reducing the level of stocks, is considered in detail.