Global Journal of Management and Business Research, E: Marketing, Volume 22 Issue 3

© 2022. Dr. Eyong Ako. This research/review article is distributed under the terms of the Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BYNCND 4.0). You must give appropriate credit to authors and reference this article if parts of the article are reproduced in any manner. Applicable licensing terms are at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Global Journal of Management and Business Research: E Marketing Volume 22 Issue 3 Version 1.0 Year 2022 Type: Double Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal Publisher: Global Journals Online ISSN: 2249-4588 & Print ISSN: 0975-5853 The Impact of Inconsistent Tracking on Inventory Management Case Study Societe Buns - Cameroon Strictly as per the compliance and regulations of: University of Bamenda Abstract - As a result of a rapid increase in inventory management and the time required to manage inventory management, many organizations have resulted to the tracking of inventory. Due to this, there should be some means of accurately tracking inventory. Due to this, there should be some means of accurately tracking inventory in order to ease the management of inventory. Some of the most useful methods of tracking inventory are barcodes where every item carries a label that gives information on the items, stock books and the Kanban system. It is against this background that the main endeavour of this project is to investigate if inconsistent tracking has an impact of inventory management with specific objective being to find out the impact of documentation on inventory management. From these objectives the following questions were asked; what impact does inconsistent tracking have on inventory management. The theories adapted to back this work were; The Just In Time theory by Taiichi Ohno (1984), The Wilson’s Model for Inventory Management by R.H Wilson (1934) and the Theory of Constraints by Dr Eliyah Goldrath (1984). The methods of data collection included primary and secondary sources. Conclusions were drawn from the data collected and recommendations were made such as making proper use of the available tracking software. Keywords: inconsistent, tracking, inventory and inventory management. GJMBR-E Classification: JEL Code: G31 TheImpactofInconsistentTrackingonInventoryManagementCaseStudySocieteBunsCameroon By Dr. Eyong Ako