For this week's discussion, you will consider 3 questions. One, what is meant by decoupling inventory. Two, inventory will have an impact on a company's income statement and balance sheet. (Yes, there is a financial implication to what happens in materials management.) Three, given the importance of and the costs involved with maintaining inventories, you will look at two measures commonly used to evaluate how well we are doing in managing our inventories, namely, inventory turns and days of supply. (These are two different metrics)