> > Corporations have sales tracking software out the wazoo. If it sells, > > they buy more and sell them. Sounds like they're doing precisely what > > their owners want them to do.
Sales tracking software relevant quote from Risks Digest 22.05: ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 14:15:16 -0700 From: Paul Breed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Smart inventory control overshoot I've been working on an old car, in the process of removing the spot welds I needed a specific sized bullet tipped drill bit. The bit would only last about 5 welds and I had hundreds to do. The only place I could find locally to buy the bits was in a pack of 15 various size bits at the local home center. So, over the period of three months, I purchased all of their drill sets, every weekend (usually 3 sets). Now I have disassembled the old car and don't need more bits. The last time I was in the home center they had so many of these drill bit sets that they were overflowing on to the floor. >From my experience the computerized inventory system has a delay of about 3 months. It determined that this item sold out for 12 weeks straight, plugged this into it's inventory tracking prediction S/W and ordered hundreds and hundreds of sets...... ------------------------------
