The phrase "avoiding shortages" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to supply chain management, inventory control, or resource planning where the goal is to prevent a lack of necessary items or resources.
Example: "The company implemented new strategies for avoiding shortages in their product supply chain to meet customer demand."
Alternatives: "preventing shortages" or "mitigating shortages".
Japan has so far succeeded in avoiding shortages, thanks in part to a drastic conservation program that has involved turning off air-conditioning in the summer and office lights during the day.
By contrast, making consumer electronics involves manufacturing lots of standard products that will be sold mostly through retailers.To keep on top of demand, Cisco has had to do the sort of things that P&G does in supplying supermarkets, avoiding shortages on one hand and too much stock on the other.
Besides the use of GP workforce planning policies to realize an equilibrium between supply and demand, which is a long-term solution for avoiding shortages of GPs, other, short-term policies can be implemented to prevent the early retirement of GPs.
Crude oil rose on expectations that oil producers will not increase production next month enough to avoid shortages.
One holds that we have avoided shortages and inflation because the Asian crisis and a weak Europe diverted a lot of goods to America that could not be sold elsewhere.
In wet years Norway typically has an abundance of cheap electricity while in dry years it needs to import to avoid shortages, creating opportunities to trade in both directions.
Last Saturday, in a radio address on high prices for gasoline and other fuels, Mr. Clinton said that if Congress did not act, he would use his own authority to create a home-heating-oil reserve to help avoid shortages in the Northeast.
Toymakers also hope the strategy will allow them to scale back production if a toy does not live up to expectations or increase it rapidly to avoid shortages like those that have plagued the introduction of Furby and other unexpectedly popular toys.
To meet the needs of customers timely, businesses must maintain higher inventory levels to avoid shortages.
Despite this, there is little research considering the appropriate management of resources from multiple organisations, and none optimising the number of actors required to avoid shortages or convergence.
The production/inventory control policy, which is based on the hedging point policy (HPP), consists in building and maintaining a safety stock of finished products in order to respond to demand and to avoid shortages during maintenance actions.
