A small business inventory DSS: Design development, and implementation issues

The availability of decision support and productivity software is providing opportunities for small businesses to develop systems which utilize operations research models to support decision-making. A framework for the development of small business decision support systems is presented and is applied to inventory management decision support system which utilizes economic order quantity models. Issues related to design, development, and implementation of small business decision support systems are discussed in detail and many aspects of the framework are illustrated using the inventory decision support system in a small business environment.