Inventoriable

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Able to be held in an inventory. not-comparable

    "We have gotten used to the flawed idea that fast response to customer orders is simply a matter of keeping warehouses full of finished goods. There is not a good parallel to this in design engineering, because designs are mostly not inventoriable."

  2. 2
    Of costs: being those directly associated with the manufacture of products to be sold. not-comparable

    "inventoriable costs"

Example

More examples

"We have gotten used to the flawed idea that fast response to customer orders is simply a matter of keeping warehouses full of finished goods. There is not a good parallel to this in design engineering, because designs are mostly not inventoriable."

Etymology

From inventory + -able.

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