When inventory is not waste
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Magazine Article, Source : The Manufacturer US
Zone : World class manufacturing
Published : April 2007
Some lean companies don’t buy the argument that less inventory is more, finds Alan R. Earls
Unlike some buzzwords, lean manufacturing is just what it sounds like: lean. Practitioners have invented all kinds of ways to ensure leanness, but some veterans of this organizational diet have discovered disturbing side effects—their corporate...
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