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Back Order
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Back Order
An order by a customer that cannot be filled because the seller does not have the good in stock. A retailer may have a back order at a wholesaler, which may cause a back order from a consumer to that retailer. A large number of back orders may indicate poor inventory management.


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Owner was incapacitated in 2010 and is processing 1900 backorders in Jan 2011.
Fill rate is the fraction of demand that is met without backorders or lost sales (Silver et al.
Apple is not offering trade-ins for the old iPhones, and with a reported 600,000 backorders for the 4.
 
 
 
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