Klarinet Archive - Posting 000472.txt from 2000/01

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Good Middle School Bass Clarinet?
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 11:23:11 -0500

--- Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com> wrote:

> I agree that the situation is ridiculous. If the demand is that great, why
> can't they figure out how to keep up with it? It costs us lost sales, so
> it must be costing them, too. Even 6 months is far too long to wait for
> something that should be in warehouse stock for immediate delivery. Lack
> of product in stock is a pet peeve of mine at the store level, and REALLY
> annoying when the manufacturers keep THEIR inventor too thin to respond to
> demand. Maybe if government agencies stopped taxing merchandise for sale
> as "property," inventories would not be maintained at artificially low levels.

With delays as long as an entire year for an instrument, it sounds like some
staff changes are in order at these companies. Any competent operations man-
ager would have the foresight to recognize the need for greater manaufacturing
capacity to meet the obvious overwhelming demand for their instruments. Given
the delays, it almost sounds like they're on a just-in-time inventory basis,
which can be very beneficial since it is very costly to maintain a large inven-
tory, regardless of demand. But JIT supply tactics don't benefit anybody very
much if the capacity isn't there to feed it.

-- Neil
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