The phrase "a backlog of inventory" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing excess stock that has accumulated and is not being sold or used in a timely manner.
Example: "Due to the recent supply chain disruptions, we now have a backlog of inventory that we need to address before the next quarter."
Alternatives: "excess inventory" or "inventory surplus".
Calls for restructuring are met with protests, even as plants operate far below capacity and dealerships are clogged with a backlog of inventory.
Fairfield County has such a backlog of inventory that in April and May, only 24percentt of the available single-family houses sold, compared with 70percentt for the corresponding period last year, according to Mark Markelz, a sales vice president in the Southport office of William Raveis International.
As for Nissan Motor and Mitsubishi Motors, respectively Japan's second- and fourth-largest car companies, they are having trouble selling new cars in the United States, and analysts believe they have such a backlog of inventory there that they cannot risk shipping more cars over.
Palm blamed the slumping U.S. economy and a backlog of inventory.
General Motors is planning to shut down production temporarily of the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid to reduce a backlog of unsold inventory.
Last year, Novatel suffered from a backlog of old inventory of 2.5G cards, which it had to write down, taking a $2.3 million charge.
In recent days, Ford and fellow Michigan firm General Motors were offering 0%, six-year loans on most remaining 2004 models to try to burn off a big backlog of inventory.
For some, like troubled eToys, disappointing holiday traffic created an enormous backlog of inventory.
The distributor on today's last-place team went from a backlog of 70 cases to an inventory of 191 in three weeks.
Similarly, statewide numbers show that the supply of unsold homes has dropped from an inventory in 1991 that would take 20 months to sell to a backlog of just over half a year today.
