Comments on: Reducing Inventory http://theleanthinker.com/2009/08/18/reducing-inventory/ Thoughts and insights from the shop floor. Fri, 18 May 2012 16:29:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Tim McMahon http://theleanthinker.com/2009/08/18/reducing-inventory/comment-page-1/#comment-31130 Tim McMahon Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:06:51 +0000 http://theleanthinker.com/?p=867#comment-31130 Mark, I could not agree more. I wrote about this back in May. You may want to take a look http://leanjourneytruenorth.blogspot.com/2009/05/is-inventory-reduction-objective-or.html Mark, I could not agree more. I wrote about this back in May. You may want to take a look

http://leanjourneytruenorth.blogspot.com/2009/05/is-inventory-reduction-objective-or.html

]]> By: Jim Fernandez http://theleanthinker.com/2009/08/18/reducing-inventory/comment-page-1/#comment-30761 Jim Fernandez Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:12:04 +0000 http://theleanthinker.com/?p=867#comment-30761 Your so right. Excess inventory is not "the" problem. It is only evidence of a problem. Here where I work we did a root cause analysis and found out our excess inventory is caused by several problems with our machine shop. Processes that seemed unrelated to inventory control. The planning department was ordering excess inventory to compensate for machine shop issues. Your so right. Excess inventory is not “the” problem. It is only evidence of a problem. Here where I work we did a root cause analysis and found out our excess inventory is caused by several problems with our machine shop. Processes that seemed unrelated to inventory control. The planning department was ordering excess inventory to compensate for machine shop issues.

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