Make-to-Stock Strategy： Manufacturi

Make-to-Stock Strategy： Manufacturing firms that hold items in stock for immediate delivery, thereby minimizing customer delivery times, use a make-to-stock strategy. This strategy is feasible for standardized products with high volumes and reasonably accurate forecasts. It is the inventory strategy of choice for line or continuous-flow processes. Examples of products produced with a make-to-stock strategy include garden tools, electronic components, soft drinks, and chemicals. Combining a line process with the make-to-stock strategy is sometimes called mass production. It is what the popular press commonly envisions as the classical manufacturing process, because the environment is stable and predictable, with workers repeating narrowly defined tasks with low divergence.