I don't have an answer for this either, but this reminded me one of my old professor whose PhD research and paper was on Soviet business computer system and inventory management systems back in the 80's. He told us in class that the Soviet use inventory system completely opposite to the US and capitalist world.

Soviet inventory systems wants to maximize the value/stock of inventory, thus showing the wealth is accumulated, and therefore resilient against adverse events. In the western world, companies tries to show the inventory has minimum amount of value/stock, in term showing the company is well run and efficient.

I'll see if I can find his research and papers regarding this.

Edit: What I have mentioned above is contained in the section "The Superstructure: The impact of Economic Perversity of ASUP", in the paper cited below. Unfortunately I am unable to find this paper without the university paid subscription of electronic journals. So, a direct link to the paper might not be a good idea for copyright purposes.

Source: McHenry, W., & Goodman, S. (1986). MIS In Soviet Industrial Enterprises: The Limits of Reform From Above. Association for Computing Machinery, 29(11), 1034-1034.