-14- anticipated life cycle as conceptualized by Consolidated. Consolidated viewed the life cycle of a core as consisting of three phases. Throughout the first phase of that cycle during which new automobile parts were being introduced into the market, customer cores were scarce; Consolidated might have purchased those parts from manufacturers and cores from core suppliers in order to have cores from which it was able to produce an inventory of finished goods; and Consolidated's core amounts generally were increasing. Throughout the second phase of the life cycle of a core as conceptualized by Consolidated, customer core availability increased; Consolidated's inventory need for customer cores was satisfied through transactions with its customers and on a special order basis from core suppliers; and Consolidated's core amounts leveled out and remained relatively constant. Throughout the third phase of that life cycle, customer core availability was at its maximum; Consolidated regularly sold as scrap metal overstocked customer cores in its unprocessed cores raw material inventory; and Consolidated's core amounts ordinarily were decreasing. Other market-related factors that Consolidated considered in determining the core amount which was part of the remanufactured automobile part sales price that it charged a customer for a remanufactured automobile part included the supply of a particular type of customer core in Consolidated's inventories, the probability that its customers would decide to provide itPage: Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Next
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