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To: GST who wrote (60370)	2/12/2002 9:04:00 PM
From: StanX Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Typically only five systems would be allowed to be placed on speculation during a quarter. Large companies need to keep the sales people from artificially hyping the bookings by minimizing speculation builds. A large company would not like too many specs that would not come through. It would backlog their manufacturing and keep too much material in WIP. When I worked in a Power Supply Company "in this industry", they used a 5-7% cap on speculative builds. Good luck. Stan