Decreasing an inventory conversion period improves a company's cash conversion cycle, which, in turn, reduces the organization's working capital requirements and increases its cash flow.

So how is an investor to track the efficiency of managing inventory ... cash to generate more sales. See the chart below with the cash conversion cycle for Wal-Mart, Target, CostCo and Amazon.com.

Getty Images The cash conversion cycle (CCC) tracks how long it takes for a company to turn cash spent on inventory and production ... suppliers to generate cash flow, usually by being on credit ...

it is imperative to accelerate incoming cash flow and shorten the cash conversion cycle (CCC). CCC is the time, measured in days, it takes to convert investments in inventory and other resources ...

Departmental silos: When sales, operations and finance operate independently without effective information flow ... (gross margin, inventory turns, cash conversion cycle) and operational ...

One of the more interesting business phenomena of the past decade has been the flow ... inventory and super-fast turnover, it’s just four days. At Amazon, the cash conversion cycle was negative ...

The cash conversion cycle (CCC) is a metric that measures the amount of time it takes for a company to sell its inventory, collect receivables, and pay its bills. The shorter the cash conversion ...