Klarinet Archive - Posting 000488.txt from 2000/01

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Good Middle School Bass Clarinet?
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 20:46:36 -0500

--- Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com> wrote:

> 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.

P.S. With respect to JIT's usefulness being restricted to relationships
between manufacturers and their PARTS suppliers, consider the fact that
through EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) and the Point-of-Sale data gather-
ing that goes on in grocery stores (through the bar code system), many
grocery stores in the country have JIT supply relationships directly with
their wholesale suppliers of FINISHED GOODS. It is clearly possible for a
retail operation to use JIT at the finished goods node of its supply chain.

-- Neil
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