You own a crawfish salad sandwich restaurant. You make the best crawfish salad sandwiches in the city. Part of your secret is keeping the crawfish very fresh (and sassy).
As such, you can’t just fill a giant warehouse full of crawfish. You can only bring in the amount you plan to use in a single day. Also, to make sure each sandwich gets the extra TLC your customers deserve, you only make an order once somebody requests it. Each one gets made from scratch, as the orders come in.
You might not know it, but you're using pull-through production. The term refers to a kind of just-in-time manufacturing. That concept means the item isn't put into production until the company obtains an order. The "pull" part comes from the idea that materials are only "pulled" into the system as needed.
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finance- a la shmoop. what is work-in-process inventory? your company
junk in the trunk makes enema kits for Elephants . what they get stopped up too. [tower with "junk in the trunk" written on it]
just need you know big bags. anyway so you've extruded ten thousand bags. you
need ten thousand giant hooks to hang the bags on palm trees and ten thousand
tube thingies for the you know de new mall. they cost you a total of 60 grand
to produce and are not yet packaged. the product isn't finished.
in fact the rubber hosing and so on has to be made of a special material that
takes three months to fully dry. you know that African climate is hell on rubber.
you also have four tons of rubber in blocks sitting around the factory floor [ants crawl across the floor]
with ants singing to it. and you have a mile of wire you'll eventually Bend into
bag hanging hooks it's just sitting in a coil.
alright you paid for the rubber blocks, and the wire already it's just sitting
there so these elements of product are in process. the product isn't finished
completed or ready to ship. so work in process inventory really just consists
of raw materials at various stages of production. and you know generally work
in processes just sitting on the factory floor versus out the door when it then
becomes a finished goods. and just remember that concept for you next time
you're unpacking a pachyderm. [woman in white coat peeks out from behind an elephant]
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What is inventory? From a financial perspective, inventory usually consists of A) raw materials for manufacturing products, B) products in the mids...
Inventory turnover...way less delicious than an apple turnover. So...what is it?
Work-in-process inventory is just inventory... that is in the process of being built. In other words, it accounts for the inventory's asset value.