{"id":1160,"date":"2013-04-05T09:25:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T13:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2013-04-05T09:25:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T13:25:32","slug":"friday-5-april-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2013\/04\/05\/friday-5-april-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 5 April 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">09:25 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> As of this morning, our April 2013 unit sales and revenue are already at 67% of total April 2012 numbers. That makes me nervous, because about 85% of April 2012 sales occurred in the second half of the month, leading into May, when the serious ramp-up started. Extending that out tells me that our ready-to-ship inventory may not be sufficient to last the month.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">So I&#8217;m madly building more kits, less the parts that I don&#8217;t have. For now, that&#8217;s 50 mL and 100 mL polypropylene beakers, of which I have 600 each on order, and the thick cavity slides, of which I have 200 dozen on order. Building partial kits is dangerous, because in the past a boxed-up kit was always ready-to-ship. I&#8217;ll have to be very careful to label the stacks of semi-complete kits &#8220;Missing Beakers&#8221; or whatever to make sure that we don&#8217;t accidentally ship incomplete kits because we mistook them for finished kits.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>09:25 &#8211; As of this morning, our April 2013 unit sales and revenue are already at 67% of total April 2012 numbers. That makes me nervous, because about 85% of April 2012 sales occurred in the second half of the month, leading into May, when the serious ramp-up started. Extending that out tells me that our ready-to-ship inventory may not be sufficient to last the month.\n<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m madly building more kits,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2013\/04\/05\/friday-5-april-2013\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Friday, 5 April 2013 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-kits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}