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原文传递 Carriers brace for rebound from historically low inventory-to-sales ratios

题名：	Carriers brace for rebound from historically low inventory-to-sales ratios
正文语种：	eng
作者：	John D. Schulz
摘要：	USUALLY, INVENTORY-TO-SALES RATIOS are one of many numbers released monthly that only statisticians-and historians-follow with any regularity. However, as anyone connected with the current freight environment can attest, these are not normal times."I have never seen a freight environment like this in my 40 years in this business," said Pitt Ohio president Chuck Hammel. The reasons are numerous. Supply chains are being flipped: One month, demand is virtually nothing, the next, customers are clamoring for goods. Raw materials-everything from computer chips to lumber to anything produced from crude oil-are either tough to find or historically expensive.Couple those factors with the fact that experienced, well-qualified truck drivers are nearly impossible to hire-effectively putting a lid on truck capacity-and you have the situation shippers and motor carriers are in as we enter the second half of 2021. The inventory-to-sales ratios compiled by the Census Department show the relationship of the end-of-month values of inventory to the monthly sales. These ratios can be looked at as indications of the number of months of inventory that are on hand in relation to the sales for a month. For example, historically, a ratio of 2.5 would indicate that the retail stores have enough merchandise on hand to cover two and a half months of sales.
出版年：	2021
期刊名称：	Logistics Management
卷：	60
期：	8