Distributors: Inventory Turnovers Up for Third Year
Distributors: Inventory Turnovers Up for Third Year
John Wolz
What percent of your product is metric?
13.8%
When a similar question was asked in the End of 1995 FIN Survey, the average reported by distributors was 12.8%
The 13.8% this year is the overall average of 132 distributors responding to the question. There were 16 distributors reporting they carry no metric product. Of the 116 distributors who do distribute metric product the average is 15.7%.
A majority reported no difficulty in obtaining fasteners during 2000, and fewer than 10% found significant difficulty.
However, the percentage finding no difficulty dropped from 64% for 1999 to 52.9% for 2000.
What fasteners are you currently having trouble obtaining?
080 T nails, A307 GRB bolts, A325 domestic nuts, anchors, automotive specialty, certain mil-spec fasteners, certain stainless steel, collarded nails, diversity of imported product, domestic product, dowelpins, spring pins, mil-spec pins, G15 large-diameter hex capscrews, galvanized washers, GR 5, Gr8, large socket head caps in stainless steel, metrics, monel, nonstandards, captive-type fasteners, Pentz head bolts from stock, pop rivets, retaining rings, nonferrous large diameter, screws, set screws, large diameter locknuts, special rivet nuts, stainless flathead, stainless specials, stainless through form, large nylon insert locknuts, structural fasteners, structural bolts and Taiwan product.\
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