Businesses were also able to significantly decrease manpower and reduce the time it took to receive items into inventory.

Typically, that point marks a device's date of manufacture, and the unit goes into inventory a few weeks later, industry officials said.

"A lot of countries bought airplanes and have taken them into inventory," he said.

Much of this, analysts believe, went into inventory, implying reduced demand for foreign goods in coming months.

Almost all the sales took place at the visitor center; the rest went into inventory.

Should Yukos's oil output have to go into inventory, that would fill up in about three days.

"And since the company saves money by not having to take the house into inventory, it's a win-win situation."

You spotted the defect, by the way, unloading them into inventory.

All in all, final sales - everything but purchases that were put into inventory - soared at a 6.5 percent annual rate.

All my money is put back into inventory, to keep it fresh.