For instance, we assist Toyota's logistics department in managing their world-famous, just-in-time inventory system around snow and ice storms.
White papersare urging nervous CEOs to realize that salvation lies in Deming Prizes, Malcolm Baldrige Awards and just-in-time inventory.
It's especially tough for Toyota, the pioneer and master of just-in-time inventory and the philosophy of heijunka, or level production.
One of the major competitive strategies which engineered and sustains this colossal network of stores is the just-in-time inventory management system.
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And, tapping his auto parts experience, he introduced the just-in-time inventory-control system and lean manufacturing, which emphasizes reducing wasteful processes in order to make better products and respond quickly to customers.
You rely on sophisticated systems to provide just-in-time inventory.
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Practice Just-In-Time (JIT) inventory management, not just-in-case.
Some economists have argued that just-in-time methods of inventory control, which allow firms to adjust production more quickly to changes in sales, should help to prevent an unwanted build-up of stocks and so smooth out the economic cycle.
Jiwire is using technology it acquired from start-up Nearbynow to also show the inventory at those stores in real-time.
For online retailers, One Web ensures that product inventory is always updated in real-time, and that search engine listings lead to the correct product results.
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Remember, profitable inventory management means just-in-time, not just-in-case.
On the one hand, RIM explains that the disappointing revenue in the fourth quarter was really due to a one-time inventory adjustment by a wireless carrier.
Giordano's management also took the opportunity to overhaul the company's inventory system, improving the operation's just-in-time supply chain.
Even media outlets are finding it difficult to keep up, with inventory for air-time shrinking as Ken Wheaton reported in Advertising Age, points out.
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