Service Centers
April 19, 2016
Service Centers Managing Their Inventories in Supply Constrained Market
Written by John Packard
In order for prices to reverse course, service center inventories will need to grow which would ultimately slow mill order books and relax lead times. The service centers we spoke with today were almost unanimous in their opinion that now is not a good time (or any easy time) to build inventories. However, there were mixed responses when it came to selling the competition inventory out of their plants.
Here are some of the comments we received on the subject:
