Depending on what indicators you measure by, we are up to 16 months into this downturn, and excess inventory doesn’t seem to be the devastating problem it was during the dot-com bust. There are a ...

Way back in 2004 I wrote two articles about warrior "inventories". One was what the police should have on their person or available to them and the other applied to soldiers. Looking back I realized ...

The growing U.S. crude oil inventory has over shadowed the very moderate decline in U.S. crude production. Leading to the continued decline in crude prices.. In December the inventory numbers started ...

The pandemic has caused great disruption in the auto industry, but retailers and automakers posted massive third-quarter profits. How can this be? Less inventory. Consumer demand rebounded quickly ...

It’s no surprise that consumers can expect a slightly different holiday season for the second year in a row. This time, however, retailers urge consumers to do their holiday shopping as early as ...

Are Canadian manufacturers dumb or what? Few rules of thumb about running a factory are more fundamental than this: When sales fall, you cut production to avoid a big runup in inventories that are ...