ABC analysis is an inventory categorization technique. It divides an inventory into three categories.
• A items are imperative for an organization.
• It is due to the high volume of these A items that frequent value analysis is required.
• ABC analysis delivers a mechanism for identifying items that will have a considerable impact on overall inventory costs.
• B items are a step below A items.
• They play a role in material management and inventory, but they are not the most prominent items.
• C items have little value compared to the former two, but there is still, nevertheless, value in C items.
• That being said, you cannot classify all merchandise as the same. Inventory cannot be the same quality or possess the same value within each inventory group.
• In other words, A, B, and C each have their type of buyer.