One use of inventory is A. to provide a hedge against inflation. B. to tightly synchronize production and distribution processes. C. to ensure that item cost is maximized. D. to tightly synchronize a firm's production with its customers' demand.

A, to provide a hedge against inflation

Explanation:

An inventory is the goods or materials or items held by a company for sale at a future period. An inventory could also be called stock.

Inventory has its uses among which is to provide a hedge for inflation. Inventory helps to provide an hedge against inflation as it can be used to keep good or material or ites for sale at a later date in the situation of price rise.

Simply put, Inventory helps to hold out goods, items, materials till a period when it can be resold at a higher price.

Note that, the goods to be kept for future resale is always bought a a lower price today.

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