“Just in Time” so often gets a bad rap. People blame “JIT” for all sorts of problems, when it’s often a problem with how JIT is implemented instead of being a problem with the core principle of Lean in and of itself. At a Lean conference, a group from a company was talking through an A3 problem solving example. The problem statement was that customers were not getting orders in the promised timeframes. As they … Continue reading "JIT" As A Cause of Delayed Shipments?