Ask about product turnover.
Typical of her carrot-and-stick methods, Ms. Castagna announced that Penney would give suppliers scorecards rating them on sales, profits, swiftness of product turnover and other things.
This also cuts across those business models that rely on fast product turnover, especially in electronics (the fastest growing source of waste).
Conveyor belts are crucial to Yo! - they're not just the gimmick, they're also key to profit and product turnover, explains Darren Wightman.
If variety is increasing in a certain category, like breakfast cereals, the new products may be displacing old ones; there would, in short, be more product turnover than in other categories.
But it may never have achieved this success without access to a range of imports.*"Multi-product firms and Product Turnover in the Developing World: Evidence from India", by Penny Goldberg, Amit Khandelwal, Nina Pavcnik and Petia Topalova.
SHOPPING Seek stores that are clean, well-organized and appear to have high product turnover: you can tell partly by checking the expiration and sell-by dates on the goods.
For example, a firm faced with product portfolio commoditization may be required to adapt its entire manufacturing footprint, while a firm with a high product turnover rate may not need to adapt its supply chain portfolio at all.
Beyond-mainstream artists need more young people to come to their gigs, to compensate for smaller product turnover; advances at the digital frontier need to be exploited to get more people to gigs (and to spend more money when they're there).
Functional genomics, proteomics, fluxomics, and physiomics are complementary to pathway engineering, and their successful applications are bound to multiply product turnover per cell, channel carbon efficiently, shrink the size of factories (i.e., reduce steel in the ground), and minimize product development cycle times to bring products to market.
