Key terms
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PRODUCTION FACILITIES: LOCATION, CAPACITY AND INVENTORY
Reading III
1.Choose the Russian equivalents from the right-hand column for the following English terms and word expressions.
| 1) production capacity | a) достаточная мощность |
| 2) insufficient capacity | b) полная мощность |
| 3) sufficient capacity | c) запасная (резервная) мощность |
| 4) under-employed capacity | d) производственная мощность |
| 5) excess capacity/overcapacity | e) неиспользованная мощность |
| 6) spare capacity | f) избыточная производственная мощность/излишек производственных мощностей |
| 7) full capacity | g) недостаточная, неполная мощность |
2.Match up the words on the left with the definitions on the right.
| 1) components | a) a shop or a store which sells to the final customer or end-user |
| 2) subcontractor | b) the financial advantages that a company gains when it produces large quantities of products |
| 3) utilities | c) the rate of output that can be achieved from a production process |
| 4) retailer | d) insufficient supply to meet demand |
| 5) wholesaler | e) the pieces or parts that make up a manufactured product |
| 6) capacity | f) keeping things for use in the future |
| 7) delivery | g) services supplied to houses, factories and public buildings, such as electricity, gas, water and sewage, and telephone lines |
| 8) demand | h) a company providing goods or services for another organisation |
| 9) shortage | i) provision of the customer with something that has been ordered |
| 10) discount | j) a business's stock of raw materials, component parts, supplies, work in process, or finished products |
| 11) storage | k) an intermediary between producers and retailers, who stocks goods, and delivers them |
| 12) inventory | l) price reduction |
| 13) lead time | m) the amount of a commodity that consumers are willing and able to purchase at a specified price |
| 14) economies of scale | n) the time between the original design or idea for a particular product and its actual production. |
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