Should you order more inventory?
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And other software vendors created applications for accounting, order entry, inventory management, communications and customer relationship management.
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We believe that our competitors are now selling smaller diameter cores at cash cost in order to reduce inventory or to keep utilization rates high.
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The moral of the story is that many businesses do not need to strictly follow the either-or business model of producing to order or for inventory.
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The company also announced production suspension at its German steel mill in order to optimize its inventory.
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Getting into specifics, the Wall Street Journal recently reported on Lisa Zerr, owner of Yankee Toy Box, and her urgent need to secure credit in order to upgrade her inventory ahead of the holiday shopping season.
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This comes as a relief to the automaker since North American margins had fallen to a measly 5.8% in the fourth quarter of 2012, after GM offered huge discounts in order to clear its burgeoning inventory.
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And the biggest benefit, according to Pollak: Having West Coast produce sitting in a refrigerated warehouse on the East Coast will allow grocery stores on the East Coast to shorten their order times, increase their inventory turns and reduce inventory costs.
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.
EasyJet flies only Boeing 737s in order to save on spare-parts inventory.
Military commanders used to order a warhead be randomly taken out of the inventory periodically and exploded to verify that the weapons would work if launched.
Or to check available inventory, request a quote or place an order from their mobile device.
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This is a business model sort of like build for inventory, but also kind of like build on order.
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Retailers were burned in 2008 when consumer demand dropped sharply after holiday inventory orders were placed, resulting in steep pricing discounts in order to move merchandise.
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Where feasible, Insight uses direct shipping -- that is, it transmits the order to the supplier, who then ships to the customer, saving Insight inventory costs.
Where feasible, Insight uses direct shipping -- that is, it merely transmits the order to the supplier, who then ships to the customer, saving Insight inventory costs.
And, tapping his auto parts experience, he introduced the just-in-time inventory-control system and lean manufacturing, which emphasizes reducing wasteful processes in order to make better products and respond quickly to customers.
In order to optimize the supply chain for new products, the company took back NOOK Simple Touch inventory following the previously announced holiday sales shortfall.
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Dell had the inventory problem whipped--it doesn't build anything until it has an order in hand--but its phone-based sales staff wasn't very good at selling to first-time buyers.
Whether you order in Roos' shop or at his own Web site, he can tap into an inventory of 35, 000 United Stationers products from more than 500 manufacturers--from a single Bic pen to a 325-pound fireproof safe, and all kinds of computer ware in between.
If the inventory slides too close to 500 billion feet, industrial users would be ordered to curtail use in order to safeguard supplies for home heating.
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