The boots sold quickly, and today John Lewis sells 30 stock-keeping units, or SKUs.
The sheer number of SKUs is huge and continues to grow each year.
That includes a large number of SKUs, since there are different versions for different hardware platforms.
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The company has over 200 licensees, which together offer over 1, 000 Angry Birds-branded SKUs.
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She also was responsible for 300 Stock Keeping Units (SKUs) as a product manager at The Body Shop.
Johnson cut the number of SKUs (stock-keeping units) worldwide from 36, 000 to 16, 000.
It has 2, 000 employees and over 75, 000 Stock Keeping Units (SKUs) with its logistics network bases located in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
The SD Card Association now boasts 1, 100 members, and says the technology is now deployed across 8, 000 product SKUs and 400 brand names.
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And as we flow more packets in more places we have to scale up our infrastructure and if we have more SKUs we have to scale up our supply chain.
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In the printing and personal systems group, the company intend to reduce the number of SKUs in printing by 30% and in PCs by 25% by the end of 2014.
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Furthermore, ZTE will continue to keep every US carrier happy with its multiple handset SKU business, with this year expecting more than 20 different SKUs in the US, most of which will be LTE-enabled.
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Best Buy seems to be missing the benefit of its so-called showroom status: the retailer has the initial opportunity to make a direct connection with customers and close the sale before shoppers begin scanning SKUs.
To manage this growth, senior management has made simplicity a strategic imperative such that managers are constantly looking for simplification opportunities through consolidation of country and regional operations, standardization of processes, and reduction of SKUs.
The allure of owning the entire e-commerce interaction chain, from search to ads to SKUs identifying each product or item is, to say the least, an incredibly enticing way to enhance the value of the core advertising business.
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Today thinkThin launches its newest offering, the Divine bar, a product that Falsetto hopes bridges the relationship between nutrition and candy and adds several more SKUs to her expanding product line ( five varieties in more than a dozen flavors).
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Indeed it does: Best Buy populates its shelves and tables with a huge number of product SKUs, often without enough educational content or curation, with associates who are not necessarily intimately familiar with all products making it hard for any given vendor to stand out.
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Last week at CTIA, we sat down with Lixin Cheng -- CEO of ZTE USA -- for a candid discussion about the company's future in the US. The conversation started with ZTE's current portfolio in the US, which consists of 18 SKUs -- primarily inexpensive Android smartphones (most with LTE) for the prepaid market.
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