Managing fruits and vegetables inventory: a study of retail stores

Selling fruits and vegetables as perishable items need special consideration by retailers keeping in mind different inventory management conditions which should cater to the need of the customers. As shelf life of fruits and vegetables are less therefore strategies for review, replenishment needs to be devised correctly. Also managing and ordering such perishable products needs to be taken special care by the retailers so that customer satisfaction can be achieved with less waste. This paper presents a review and replenishment techniques followed by the retailers of perishable items (fruits and vegetables). Also ordering policies followed by them are discussed. How retailers manage their order size, time of order, how do review and replenish their shelf etc. are some of the questions that are answered in this paper. Only organized retail stores are considered who are selling fruits and vegetables and have a retail outlet in Delhi-NCR.