Sell-Source-Ship

Sell-Source-Ship (3S) A supply chain characterization in which the seller does not hold inventory. Once an order is placed, the seller channels orders to single or multiple sources. This is the opposite of the Buy-Hold-Sell model, in which the seller does hold inventory. 

Irradiation plants for sterilization continued to sell steadily in the late 1980s. In 1987-88, Nordion was completing installations in Japan and South Korea and made new sales in England, Pakistan, the United States, and West Germany. There were now some one hundred and forty-seven industrial gamma-irradiation plants in forty-three countries. More than half of them had been built by Nordion, but even those made by other companies required new and replacement sources. In 1989, Nordion shipped a record thirty-three million curies of cobalt-60. The investment it had made a few years earlier in an increased supply of cobalt-60 firom Hydro reactors was paying off handsomely. 

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