...Lluís Cuatrecasas-Arbós; Jordi Fortuny-Santos; Patxi Ruiz-de-Arbulo-López; Carla Vintró-Sanchez Purpose – Since lean manufacturing considers that “Inventory is evil”, the purpose of this paper is to find and quantify the relations between work-in-process inventory (WIP), manufacturing lead time...

... for a single organization. Limited knowledge exists when more than two companies require the development of a PMS for a jointly agreed business process. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Supply chain management Performance measurement (quality) Inventory Partnership The design...

... ranging from forecasting, material resources planning (MRP), to electronic data exchange (EDI) have been evolved with the use of the ever‐changing information systems (IS) and information technology (IT) (Girishankar, 2000). The state‐of‐the‐art IS/IT allows a company to link its internal inventory...

...Timothy B. Biggart; Vidyaranya B. Gargeya Just‐In‐Time (JIT) production has received a great deal of attention, worldwide, since its introduction in Japan a few decades ago. It has been well documented that some of the main benefits of JIT implementation are reduction of inventories, lead‐time...

... managers who would solve inventory control problems on an irregular basis. Data collection was done individually and privately, rather than in a computer lab with multiple subjects. The interactions between the subject and the software were captured in a log file, which in essence is an ASCII file...