Sentence examples for unused inventory from inspiring English sources

Compaq and others have written off vast amounts of unused inventory, accepting the financial damage while investors' expectations are low.

It did not write off unused inventory and does not expect to take a charge in the current quarter.

Third, he said, whenever there is a downturn in demand, more travel suppliers discover the wisdom of selling unused inventory online.

The company, which Mr. Chambers said was caught by surprise when corporate technology spending went from 60 miles an hour to zero in the blink of an eye, wrote off $2.2 billion in unused inventory last year.

"They have worn through their unused inventory of apparel, fashion accessories and jewellery and are actively expanding their purchases," he says, predicting that retailers who serve them could enjoy a sales boost of as much as 10% compared with last year's holiday season.Things may be very different for the bottom 40% of households, still committed to recession-inspired prudence.

Where will you store the unused inventory?

With fewer customers buying products, Hewlett-Packard wrote off $103 million to clear unused inventories of printers, hand-held organizers and scanners, and took a $52 million charge to cancel a planned expansion of its inkjet line.

In the second stage, a relief distribution plan is developed based on various disaster scenarios aiming to minimize: total distribution time, the maximum weighted distribution time for the critical items, total cost of unused inventories and weighted shortage cost of unmet demands.

"The world is awash in unused travel inventory," Mr. Silverman said.

Perhaps, in addition to patient training, the F.D.A. might institute a give-back program — akin to government buy-back deals for guns — for anybody housing an inventory of unused prescription painkillers.

ON a busy but somewhat shabby commercial strip in Mount Vernon, Shawna Holmes was expressing enthusiasm one day not long ago about the potential of a vacant storefront she was viewing, despite the store's shattered front window, the huge inventory of unused hair products it contained, and the lack of proper ventilation and kitchen equipment.