Klarinet Archive - Posting 000486.txt from 2000/01

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Good Middle School Bass Clarinet?
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 20:04:16 -0500

At 08:23 AM 1/15/2000 -0800, Neil Leupold wrote:
>With delays as long as an entire year for an instrument, it sounds like some
>staff changes are in order at these companies. Any competent operations man-
>ager would have the foresight to recognize the need for greater
manaufacturing
>capacity to meet the obvious overwhelming demand for their instruments.
Given
>the delays, it almost sounds like they're on a just-in-time inventory basis,
>which can be very beneficial since it is very costly to maintain a large
inven-
>tory, regardless of demand. But JIT supply tactics don't benefit anybody
very
>much if the capacity isn't there to feed it.
>
Just-in-time inventory control works really well for manufacturers who have
a reliable source of supply for production PARTS inventory where the
production level is relatively constant, or at least predictable. As an
inventory control method for SALES, unless the demand is very predictable
(yeah, right!), it simply does not work, regardless of how much managers
and accountants would like it to. It would be like figuring that last year
your store sold 12 clarinets, so you should order from the factory one
clarinet to be delivered each month for the year.

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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