It was here, outside the customs, that Ma Li got her job at the costumejewelry factory, handling inventory, keeping track of orders, and doing some English translation.
Typically, the lost jobs involve making products, like T-shirts or pressed-wood desks and chairs, that are now profitable to manufacture only if labor costs are at a bare minimum, and that companies can afford to maintain excess inventories of in order to obviate concerns about lead times and transportation costs.
You may not start out with a large warehouse full of inventory in order to successfully run a full scale staging business.
He pleaded for time, saying he did not want to stop the bottle-by-bottle cleaning of the inventory in order to find the wine of a select group of large collectors.
Personal computer makers, facing increased inventories, delayed taking delivery of orders, he said.
Readings for new orders, the backlog of orders, inventories and employment all signaled contraction in the sector while readings for exports and production showed expansion.
A company that inventories products in anticipation of orders, however, will have difficulty tracing production costs to particular orders and customers.
These help firms keep much closer track of orders, inventories and the like, and so help them to determine faster and more accurately when extra staff are needed.
RelayRides gets people to donate their personal cars, whereas Getaround is a peer to peer marketplace, and hinges on yield management, tapping into the community of unused inventory in order to get its product base.
Manufacturers are also paring down inventories and clearing their backlogs of orders, the report showed.
The ratio of orders to inventories was at its worst since December 2008.
