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Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo
Standard accountant trick, the first thing they do is say we need to reduce our inventory, reduce our production costs and increase our prices!
Then all your customers go to competitors because they call and you go I don't have 67EF MF in stock and when I do I've replaced them all under warranty 
Automotive aftermarket lives and dies on availability, if you're in the ball park on pricing but you always have it on the shelf and you can get it to them in a reasonable time frame, you'll be the first call. |
Bean counters can be truly stupid sometimes. You could literally post hundreds of examples of cost cutting ending up costing more than the money initially saved, through warranty claims or loss of business due to the product durability going south.