Bus 499 Inventory Management

Assignment 2 Inventory Management Shristi Shresta Professor BUS 499 August 28th, 2013 Determine these types of inventories these companies currently manage and describe their essential inventory characteristics. Apple is a manufacturing company that manufactures and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, and portable digital music players. Along with their devices, they also sell a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications that can be accessed through the devices. The popular devices that are manufactured by the company include Macintosh computer, iPhone, iPod, and iPad. The Macintosh computer is the most famous device that has been manufactured by the company. When this specific device was released in 1984, it because the first computer to successfully use a Graphical User Interface which allow the users to use the device by activating pictures on the screen by using a mouse. From this success, it inspired the development of modern computers since most modern-day computers operate using the Graphical User Interface. The iPhone, the worlds first smart phone, is another famous device that is manufactured by the company. It is basically like a mini-computer that provides similar functions and features as a computer does. Since,