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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Willy Shih teaches in operation management at Harvard Business School This article is more than 3 years old. A container ship ...

The quest to find the Holy Grail of inventory management has led many companies to settle on one of two approaches—just-in-time or just-in-case—or to bounce back and forth from one to the other. Both ...

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 ...

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 ...