How might different functional areas of an organization have different inventory management objectives? How would you meet management's challenge of balancing inventory? What tools and/or theoretical formulas would you utilize? Explain why. How do you differentiate cycle, safety, pipeline, and speculative inventory? Why do we need to do so? What is inventory carrying cost? Explain the primary components. What is the tradeoff between inventory ordering and carrying cost? What are stock-out costs? How should you calculate the cost?