Beila Goldberg May 13, 2014:

X détient un stock et le gère.
" L'inventaire est très important lorsque l'activité économique inclut un stock. Tout au long du cycle d'exploitation, une comptabilité sur les entrées et sorties de stocks est mise à jour."
http://www.journaldunet.com/business/pratique/dictionnaire-e...
L'inventaire fait donc partie de la gestion.
Comme le dit Tony : inventory UK, inventaire, inventory US, stock

Sylvie André (asker) May 13, 2014:

désolée Tony, je ne pouvais pas répondre, j'étais absente....

Tony M May 12, 2014:

@ W/A I wasn't saying it didn't look OK — I was just seeking clarification from Asker as to how they were interpreting it in the light of the wider context; as it turns out, my initial interpretation was in fact correct — but I just thought it was worth clarifying that point before moving on to suggest a translation.

writeaway May 12, 2014:

looks perfectly ok imo

Tony M May 12, 2014:

Goodness! How are you parsing this? To me, it must be an 'agreement' covering 'consignment' and 'supplier-owned-and-managed inventory' ('inventory being US EN for 'stock').

OK, so now we have your other question, the missing context makes it clear this is talking about 2 different situations for handling the customer's stock.

As I understand this, we must be in some kind of 'push' rather than 'pull' situation, where instead of the customer contacting the supplier to replenish stocks, it is the supplier who manages the customer's stocks and supplies them afresh when necessary.

Have I got that about right?