title: How to leverage a bad inventory situation.
abstract: Small manufacturing companies have a hard time taking advantage of the price breaks that result from large purchase orders. Besides the greater amount of money involved, purchasing large quantities of items demands additional space for storing the items. This article describes a company that created separate inventory management and finance company to provide inventory management services to itself and to market these services to other small companies in its area.
authors.affiliation: Green Gear Cycling, Eugene, OR, USA.
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Horsfall
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003363:Cost Control; D017046:Cost Savings; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D005376:Financial Management; D007445:Inventories, Hospital / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D014481:United States