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Allocation - What does on allocation mean?

It basically means that Canon have not got enough stock to go to every outlet they supply and someone in the organisation has to make a decision of which cameras and how many of them are sent out to individual stores. This is called allocation; typically Canon has three routes or as they term channels to market.