It is a ratio of costs required to fulfill an order.

In addition to the aid suspension, the State Department refused permission for an American company to fulfill an order from the Panamanian Government for tear gas.

The award can be based on price, delivery time (the time it takes the supplier to fulfill an order), or other factors such as quality or how closely the product meets the needs.

A metric designed to calculate waste and highlight opportunities for improvement, MCT gives an estimate of the time it takes to fulfill an order, quantifying the longest critical-path duration of order-fulfillment activities.

She said she recently received an order for 150,000, but she said she could not fulfill an order of that size and the purchaser - whom she declined to name - could not agree on a price.

In December 1975, final batches 288 and 224 bikes were destined for Australia and the USA (respectively); but NVT diverted them to fulfill an order from the Saudi-Arabian police force.

When a company is low on a product the supplier will be notified and fulfill an order immediately which eliminates the need for someone to do inventory, fill out the proper documents, send them out and wait for their products.

The Intercontinental Manufacturing Company (IMCO) was formed in the Dallas, Texas area in 1948 by Harold J. Silver and Robert F. Yonash, initially to fulfill an order from Argentina for tractors.

In March 2006, e.Digital informed its shareholders that Maycom was either unwilling or unable to fulfill a purchase order for 1,250 digEplayers and batteries it had placed to fulfill an order from its customer, digEcor, in November 2005.