We’ve covered inventories quite a bit at “Marketplace” in the past few years — supply chain issues leaving some businesses without enough inventory and changing consumer demand leaving others with too ...

Tariffs could trigger shortages and supply chain snarls, similar to what was seen when the pandemic cut off lines to Chinese manufacturers. Are the workarounds small business used then still valid now ...

Nothing for retail inventory planners has been easy over the past three years. After the shortages of 2020 and 2021, the industry spent the past year trying to unload products as consumers cut their ...

Acquiring enough used inventory is the usual problem for dealerships. In the fourth quarter of 2024, Sonic Automotive faced the opposite problem — it had too much used inventory. Poor results in the ...

Retailers planned conservatively with inventory this holiday season and are simultaneously offering numerous deals throughout the season to avoid another year of excess stock. Companies last year were ...

In business, there’s a delicate balancing act that every company must master. It is often referred to as the Goldilocks problem. If a company carries too much inventory, it ties up valuable cash in ...