An overview of representative research of the relationships between quality and inventory

We present a taxonomy of the research that includes the relationship between quality and inventory. A literature review of over forty-five books and journal articles provides a basis for understanding the research in this area. Our goal is not to review all variants of this relationship or to describe all of the results, but rather to provide a broad overview of the major problems in the literature. We review optimization, statistical analysis and simulation, viewpoint and policy literature, although the majority of the works deal with optimization research and viewpoint or case studies. This is the first attempt to review this subjective matter.