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亨利·福特:我的生活与工作·补录 270

亨利·福特《我的生活与工作》· My Life and Work · 领导

We discovered, after a little experimenting, that freight service could be improved sufficiently to reduce the cycle of manufacture from twenty-two to fourteen days. That is, raw material could be bought, manufactured, and the finished product put into the hands of the distributor in (roughly) 33 per cent. less time than before. We had been carrying an inventory of around $60,000,000 to insure uninterrupted production. Cutting down the time one third released $20,000,000, or $1,200,000 a year in interest. Counting the finished inventory, we saved approximately $8,000,000 more--that is, we were able to release $28,000,000 in capital and save the interest on that sum.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7213
定位:Additional excerpt 270 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

福特发现,改善铁路货运后,从买原料到成品交到经销商手里的整个周期,从22天缩短到14天,大约快了三分之一。原来为了生产不断线,要压着约6000万美元的库存;时间缩短三分之一,就释放出2000万美元,一年光利息就省120万美元。算上成品库存,又省了约800万美元,总共释放2800万美元资本,并省下这笔钱的利息。核心是:缩短周期就是释放现金,现金不是借来的,而是从流程里挤出来的。

上下文

福特在书中解释购买铁路如何帮助福特汽车缩短制造周期、减少库存占用资金。

今日一问

你的生产或服务周期里,哪一段可以缩短,从而释放被库存占用的现金?

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