Quotes About Inventories

Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are inventories. Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive.

Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.

For physical goods, there are costs associated with logistics and lead times, owing to inventories and poor forecasts of the market. With digital capital-intensive technology, however, production will inevitably move toward the final market, wherever it is. This re-localization constitutes a major shift in the structure of global supply networks.

If we cut our batch sizes in half, then I guess that at any one time we'd have half the work-in-process on the floor. I guess that means we'd only need half the investment in work-in-process to keep the plant working. If we could work it out with our vendors, we could conceivably cut all our inventories in half, and by cutting our inventories in half, we reduce the amount of cash tied up at any one time, which eases the pressure on cash flow.

I say, "So the bottom line is this: to give the robots more to do, we released more materials." "Which, in turn, increased inventories," says Stacey. "Which has increased our costs," I add. "But the cost of those parts went down," says Lou. "Did it?" I ask. "What about the added carrying cost of inventory? That's operational expense. And if that went up, how could the cost of parts go down?

By running non-bottlenecks for "efficiency," we've built inventories far in excess of demand.

Usually labeled "summary of significant accounting policies," one key note describes how the company recognizes revenue, records inventories, treats installment or contract sales, expenses its marketing costs, and accounts for the other major aspects of its business.

It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the estates of the colonists.

What began as a subprime lending problem has spread to other, less risky mortgages and contributed to excess home inventories that have pushed down home prices for responsible homeowners.

People cannot be managed. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

I do think that narrative is very important - I think that we use narrative to organize the world around us, and so it does matter a lot what kinds of narratives we have in our inventories and which ones are reinforced so often and so strongly that we habitually reach for them without thinking.