@welshbloke, I used to supply ERP S/W for manufacturers, which is why I am familiar with JIT (or Kanban). I suspected that you are in the manufacturing world based on your usage of JIT (which not many non-manufacturing people are aware of).
Did your company applied TOC or "Theory of Constraint" yet ? This is the latest JIT-inspired manufacturing buzzword, that in addition to manage inventory, it also manage process (it is an advances form of process flow, so to speak). ToC is not applicable to every manufacturing company, just like JIT is not applicable to every manufacturing company.
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I used to supply ERP S/W for manufacturers, which is why I am familiar with JIT (or Kanban). I suspected that you are in the manufacturing world based on your usage of JIT (which not many non-manufacturing people are aware of).
Did your company applied TOC or "Theory of Constraint" yet ? This is the latest JIT-inspired manufacturing buzzword, that in addition to manage inventory, it also manage process (it is an advances form of process flow, so to speak). ToC is not applicable to every manufacturing company, just like JIT is not applicable to every manufacturing company.