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Originally Posted by iCurtis
It is bad for business to keep a large inventory.
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Keeping a large inventory of finished products is expensive. A better solution is to keep a larger supply of intermediate components. It will give a large amount of leeway in providing many types of finished product, and will buffer supply chain issues when pulling in raw stock for the machine shop.
For example the various P60's are multiple stacks/layers of common components. The final assembly ratios are determined by how the common components are arranged. That gives much more flexibility in how inventory is managed and it will reduce capital outlay substantially. It just increases the lead time a little.