Zero Inventories
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Zero Inventories is the definitive work on JIT! It is written for the key people in industry--managers, engineers, staff professionals and foremen, showing how to solve inventory problems and achieve stockless production. Its wide range of topics include: forecasting and inventory control methods; material requirements planning; systems for scheduling operations in manufacturing, procurement, logistics and project planning; systems for master scheduling and corporate planning; organizational problems of installing and managing new systems.
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This was first published in 1984. I think that I, first read this book in the late 1980's and I've re-read it a few times during the years. I've just pulled it back out - in light of the current global supply chain problems.
This an enormously informative resource.
In the meantime different waves of optimisation systems have been embraced. Just in time (JIT) and TQM, Agile, etc.
In my opinion, Zero Inventories stands up. Still relevant, because it's written as a sense making and sharing document.
It therefore builds up and doesn't start with an assumption of previous reading and familiarity.
It is the beginning of a return reflection (or should have been), of the Asian (Korean, Japanese) research trips to Europe and North Americas during the 1960's, 70's and 80's. That is a comment about what we did after and separate from the the book.
