Sentence examples for weeks of inventory from inspiring English sources

To deal with the problem, companies are signing longer-term contracts with suppliers or becoming a little less lean, stocking up on months instead of weeks of inventory.

During the company's conference call with analysts today, Fred Anderson, the chief financial officer, said that Apple had reduced inventory by 300,000, beating a target of 250,000 units and as a result had cut the number of weeks of inventory backlog in half.

"They carry about three to four weeks of inventory, so they've got far less exposure to inventory buildup and writedowns," says Van Dorsten.

But production wasn't interrupted, because Flex keeps two weeks of Xbox parts inventory at or near its Guadalajara site, and parts suppliers nearby keep another two to four weeks of inventory on hand.

The well-publicized effort by Saudi Arabia to reduce its exports to the U.S. in order to draw down inordinately high U.S. inventories has apparently had its intended effect to some extent, resulting in a few weeks of inventory draw-downs to get it back into a more normal range.

Because DHL has been able to shave a couple of days off the trucking time from a Beijing warehouse to various Chinese markets, one fast-moving U.S. consumer goods client is saving $1.2 million a month by keeping only five weeks of inventory instead of eight.

Mr. Gupta, who is based in Barcelona, said mobile operators and other big retailers were keeping three to four weeks' worth of inventory, whereas, 18 months ago, it was four to six weeks.

Those suppliers, Van Hees says, typically had been holding less than four weeks' worth of inventory on hand to back up unanticipated orders from phone manufacturers.

"Most warehouses have one or two weeks worth of inventory.

We have 3 to 4 weeks of channel inventory now.

At the end of the first quarter the company had about four weeks of DRAM inventory.