inventoriable en · ADJ
Etymology
From inventory + -able.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Able to be held in an inventory.
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.
2008, Richard J. Schonberger, World Class Manufacturing, page 149:
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(not-comparable) Of costs: being those directly associated with the manufacture of products to be sold.
inventoriable costs