Absolute zero

Magazine Article, Source : The Manufacturer US
Zone : World class manufacturing

George Schultz looks at how to be pragmatic about “zero inventory”

Zero sounds too definite. It’s precisely zero, while manufacturing of any type is bound to have some inventory somewhere. So can “zero inventory manufacturing” be taken literally? Can it be attained even virtually in lean-type organizations, or is it...

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