Comment Re:Hard to believe (Score 1) 804
the other strategy all these companies use is a little tax dodge called Vendor Managed Inventory -you make your vendor keep all of your subassemblies and materials in a bonded stores warehouse right next to your assembly plant and keep it off your books until the parts actually hit the assembly line so that they don't show up as inventory until right before they are assembled and shipped leaving the manufacturer with almost no inventory on their books -the vendors then have to eat the taxes for storing the stuff for the manufacturer
I did supply chain for HP and Converge during the .com boom and they were even doing it back then
Looks like it is also popular for Retailers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor-managed_inventory
-I'm just sayin'
I did supply chain for HP and Converge during the
Looks like it is also popular for Retailers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor-managed_inventory
-I'm just sayin'