Thursday May 16: What the heck is JIT?

A NOTE OF COMMUNITY INTEREST: THE FOLLOWING ASSIGNMENTS ARE NOW DUE BY 8 PM:

THE BOOK OF LISTS
YOUR CALL
TEA EARL GREY HOT
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR PROSPERITY
WHAT RESOURCES DO YOU USE?
KATRINA SYNDROME PART 1

Greetings once again:

To my mind, there are two reasons why our current methods of supplkying our vital "day to day" needs is so perilous:

A) People have NO IDEA exactly how the stuff they buy actually ends up on store shelves

B) Almost unanimously, stores across America are -- in computer terms -- "wysiwgs" --- meaning "what you see is what you get"

In other words, when you walk into almost store in America  -- especially if its part of some big retail chain -- ALL the items they have for sale are already on the shelves. In the bad old days there may have been "some stuff out back" --  those days, for the most part are long gone.

The reason this has taken place is because of an industrial and inventory process known as "JIT". What I would like to do now is a two step process:

A) Read through the following description below and then describe to me -- in your own words, I will haunt your nightmares if you copy and paste --   exactly what JIT is, how it works and what it means to you as a consumer. Not less than three complete sentences

http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/just-in-time-JIT-inventory.html


B) The next step is for you to synthesize in three complete sentences what the article listed below has to say about JIT. Additionally, I would like you to connect what you have learned about JIT to what you have written in the previous two assignments having to do with the "Katrina syndrome". Formulate a personal response in light of what you have learned

http://www.assemblymag.com/blogs/14-assembly-blog/post/89347-time-to-rethink-jit


Please send your work in an email with your name and "JIT" in the subject line

cheers,
Mr. L