Zero Inventories

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.