keep up with demand

Meaning

This phrase means to produce enough goods or services to satisfy the level of customer desire or need. It is commonly used in manufacturing, retail, and service industries when discussing supply chains, production capacity, or sales performance.

Examples

• Our factory is working overtime to keep up with demand for the new smartphone.

  Our factory is working overtime to keep up with demand for the new smartphone.

• If we don't hire more customer service representatives, we won't be able to keep up with demand.

  If we don't hire more customer service representatives, we won't be able to keep up with demand.

• The bakery struggled to keep up with demand during the holiday season.

  The bakery struggled to keep up with demand during the holiday season.

• We need to scale our cloud infrastructure to keep up with demand from new users.

  We need to scale our cloud infrastructure to keep up with demand from new users.

• Despite increasing prices, the company still managed to keep up with demand.

  Despite increasing prices, the company still managed to keep up with demand.

Common Mistakes

• ✗ We need to keep up the demand of our customers.

  ✓ We need to keep up with demand.

  Always use the preposition 'with' after 'keep up' in this phrase. Avoid inserting 'the' before 'demand' to keep the expression natural.

• ✗ The team is trying to hold up with demand.

  ✓ The team is trying to keep up with demand.

  'Hold up' means to delay or support, whereas 'keep up with' means to move or progress at the same rate as the incoming orders.

Related Expressions

Practice

• With sales doubling every month, the production team is working hard to ___.

  💡 Maintain the pace of customer orders.

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  keep up with demand

• If we don't increase our inventory, we won't be able to ___ this holiday season.

  💡 Match the buying interest of consumers.

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  keep up with demand