It turned out that the programmer who had built the link between the front-end sales system and the back-end inventory system had somehow managed to duplicate a line of code.
In the private sector, businesses sold off their products during Q4 but declined to replace those items, which while a drain on the economy, spared tens of thousands of auditors from dreadfully monotonous year-end inventory counts.
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Retail's risky--it only takes one slow season to end up swimming in inventory.
Citing weaker end demand and ongoing inventory cuts, Goldman Sachs analyst Simona Jankowski this morning chopped her forecast for 2012 mobile phone shipments.
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In addition, the company hopes to use the funding to expand production of high-end pieces and increase its inventory of rare gemstones.
Gerra thinks the industry is feeling the combined effects of Q1 inventory build and slowing end demand.
Catherine Virga, director of CPM Group, said the consultancy had estimated an end-of-2010 Chinese inventory of at least 1.63 million tons.
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For example, the company is in the process of acquiring Sterling Commerce, which allows businesses to connect to each other's back-end data for things like billing, inventory and trucking capacity.
This low-end user demand is forcing Caterpillar dealers to reduce their inventory levels, which is further impacting sales of the company.
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Unfortunately, as with other types of year-end clearance sales shoppers may not have a particularly rich inventory from which to choose, especially among model-year 2012 closeouts.
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The inventory issue probably grounds the company at the lower end of that range.
Nardelli plans to cut production by 82, 900 vehicles in the fourth quarter, or 14%, and says Chrysler will end the year with 100, 000 fewer cars in dealer inventory than the year before.
This thesis: an inventory correction in the chip industry is coming to an end.
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Inventory turns were an average 112.1 days at the end of the third quarter.
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Nationwide, the inventory of unsold homes was 3.33 million at the end of October 2011, an eight-month supply at the current sales rate.
Further, we anticipate carriers will not build large inventory levels for BB10, consistent with prior BB7 high-end launches, and will initially stock modest levels given the weaker consumer demand for high-end BlackBerry smartphones.
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This means forward supply partners (from distribution through to end customers) likely went into a panic ordering mode today to increase inventory and put in safety stocks in case some parts go on allocation.
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The other half worked on the back end, crunching computer code to build systems for order-processing, distribution and inventory flow and to integrate a new Web site tracking system with the existing ones.
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