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Many of those in supply chain management learned early on the principles of just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing. Inspired by the work of Taiichi Ohno at Toyota Motor Co., the JIT revolution tightly ...

IT adaptation to COVID-19 accelerated demand for the elasticity that just-in-time hardware and software provide, and now for smart enterprises there’s no turning back. A big lesson brought home early ...

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Constraints on the U.S. defense industrial base and concerns about limited manufacturing capacity have been ascribed to a production approach described as “just-in-time.” Just-in-time production has ...