With improved forecasting, lead times for other power sources can be increased and price volatilities reduced.
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As for the Mini, he writes that ongoing 2 week lead times reflect stronger-than-expected demand.
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Lead times may be long and the supply chain inflexible, but you can't beat the price.
The company aims to utilize shortened lead times and improved efficiencies to derive the said capacity gains.
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Food companies once had lead times of 20 years to get products like Becel on supermarket shelves.
We do not currently expect any material impact on our revenue or on customer deliveries and lead times.
In the technology business with such long product lead times, one year appears to us to be significant.
Generally, the items with very short lead times are manufactured in Europe, with longer-lead items manufactured in Asia.
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Wu notes that lead times for the iPhone 5 are down to 2-4 days, from a recent 3-4 weeks.
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In addition to being expensive, with long construction lead times, these projects face lengthy and costly regulatory hurdles.
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Sales began to understand and appreciate the lead times involved in Marketing, like securing a billboard or advertorial in a magazine.
Lead times for devices were reduced from four years to 18 months.
What happens when WiseWindow moves away from airlines and towards consumer products with shorter purchasing lead times (like fast food hamburgers or apparel)?
PCs have about a 14 month design cycle, driven by the influences of tooling lead times and retail selling cycles (human behavior patterns).
With only two washing facilities in the country and no domestic supply of fabrics, trims or even packaging materials, long lead times are required.
After the deployment of Doppler weather radar, lead times for tornadoes were nearly doubled, from less than five minutes to around 10 to 13 minutes.
Long lead times persist for oil drilling rigs, mining equipment and some other specialized machinery, but generally companies face no supply limitations when considering expansion.
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The very nature of the medium allows for feedback to be integrated into the plot, unlike on television where lead times make such interaction impossible.
Also, it can cut down on lead times, reduce inventory levels, diminish some currency risks, increase control over intellectual property, and reduce supply chain disruption risks.
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This lack of capacity, in turn, increases lead times for manufacturers, which can delay the arrival of new products to market and the restocking of popular products.
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So, eschewing traditional publishing houses (and their long lead times), within eight months the team had self-published Action Trumps Everything: Creating What You Want in an Uncertain World.
On Monday, November 26, the shipping lead times for the iPhone 5 in twenty-one of the twenty-three countries I checked had decreased from two weeks to one week.
That gap cannot be closed quickly, since the oil-production business has long lead times and any new oil will take a couple of years at least to come on stream.
The combination of historically low lead times and increasing global macroeconomic concerns, which have now impacted China, has driven our distributors and customers to lower bookings across all geographies and end markets.
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The deployment of the Doppler radar system in the early 1990s by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration extended tornado warning lead times from five minutes to their now-annual average of 12 to 14 minutes.
The continued shortening of the iPhone lead time goes hand in hand with my earlier posting on November 15 that also described how the major US carriers lead times had gone to immediate availability.
It is only natural that these parallel structures lead at times to differences of opinion and approach.
However the macro environment and order patterns remain very fluid and lead-times are near historical lows, impacting visibility.
The Nets have held a 2-0 series lead five times, winning each series.
What are the long-term defense budget consequences of enabling the Soviet Union to gain lead-times in key technology areas, such as microelectronics?
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