Sentence examples for inventory crisis from inspiring English sources

Twelve months later Nokia was hit with an inventory crisis: It was short components it needed and long everything else.

Then twelve months later Nokia was hit with an inventory crisis: It was short of the components it needed and long everything else.

She insists the frenzy can be contained, and to this end she has created a crisis inventory form that, she says, allows the client to rate the probability of all manner of crises, from hurricanes to liability suits.

It attributed its drop in sales and profits on low selling prices, high costs of precious metals, the Asian currency crisis and inventory reductions by its major customers.

But excessive inventory could prolong the crisis, which needs to flush out extra homes in order to return to a proper balance between supply and demand.

During the financial crisis, warehoused inventories of aluminum more than tripled, the company said, because of weakened consumer demand.

Koji Endo, a managing director at Advanced Research Japan, an equity research firm, said automakers "could have a June crisis" when inventories of crucial parts run out.

He added that inventory rebuilding after the credit crisis eased led to extraordinary gains.

Mr. Löscher conceded that some of the sales gains at Siemens had been driven by government stimulus programs as well as customers restocking inventories depleted during the financial crisis.

The Fed's surveys of senior loan officers at banks suggest that businesses -- which responded to the crisis by reducing inventories and capital spending, paying down debts and hoarding cash -- have begun to inquire about new or increased credit lines, though small businesses say that credit is tighter than at any point since the early 1990s.

Bottom line, you would have fewer defaults, fewer repossession additions to the housing inventory, and increased confidence that the crisis was ending.