You can blame Valero, but most other major oil companies like Conoco Phillips, Exxon Mobil, Chevron and BP utilize the same operating protocols during the winter months in order to meet summer demand. the exact same thing.

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If you are likely to get a few more orders for that exact size later in the year, then you could use the custom order as a base for a larger production run now.

FORBES: Art and the Economics of Production to Order, for Inventory, or Something In Between

"The trio of new LIFEBOOK notebooks are all built to order, allowing business professionals to design systems that meet their exact requirements for maximum productivity, " said Paul Moore, vice president, PC product marketing and product management, Fujitsu America.

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The only thing we weren't sure of was the exact on-sale date, but even that got leaked when a Canadian retailer put up a pre-order page indicating the two products would ship January 29th.

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