Article ID: | iaor19931681 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 32 |
Start Page Number: | 29 |
End Page Number: | 31 |
Publication Date: | Nov 1991 |
Journal: | Production and Inventory Management Journal |
Authors: | Natarajan R. |
Keywords: | production: JIT |
As firms implement JIT, they have to reckon with the fact that the nature and level of inventories and the associated costs are determined by a whole host of operations-related factors. This article highlights these issues by providing a broader interpretation of the familiar river-flow anology. It also discusses the use of a cause-effect diagram to help understand the various factors and their interrelationships.