Even giants like Lucent Technologies have a hard time coping with wildly varying order volumes that can rise or plunge 80% from one month to the next.
He pushed to standardize the type of brakes, air conditioners and other parts that it purchased, in order to increase volumes and thus reduce purchasing prices.
With comic books, she explained, many titles order story lines by volumes.
Other countries have sizeable stockholding obligations on commercial oil industry operators which can be lowered in order to make these volumes freely available to the market.
Russia is far happier sitting tight and pushing the idea that mothballing upstream investments will reduce volumes in order to put gas prices firmly back on oil indexed fundamentals.
But the main problem in the past had "been how to get production volumes up in order to get prices down".
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Tablet visitors tend to be during the evening and purchase higher ticket items, while smartphone use more mirrors desktop usage patterns with higher volumes but lower average order sizes, Mack says.
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The site provides a single order form for registering or backordering large volumes of domain names with partner registrars.
Its business needs both these strengths in order to remain competitive, as domestic trading volumes grow and as more Russian firms want access to overseas markets.
The problem is that while shipping the stuff that we buy on eBay ( EBAY) or order from Amazon.com ( AMZN) helps increase volumes, margins on those transactions tend to be rather thin.
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