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Operations Management Managers
How does JIT and lean processing affect managerial decision-making in that organization?
"JIT is a form of providing supplies for customers, as the name suggests, just in time" as they are needed (Atkinson 2011) Keeping inventories low is a critical component of success for a retail organization like Wal-Mart. Inventories that build up in warehouses must frequently be sold at a loss. Overly well-stocked inventories also take space away from products that consumers actually desire, and can be sold full price. However, inventories of desirable goods cannot be allowed to sink too low, given that if a product is out of stock, consumers will go to another store.
JIT attempts to closely tailor consumer needs to what suppliers have in stock. Wal-Mart has been able to use JIT because of its status as the world's largest retailer. It has tremendous power and leverage with its suppliers. Additionally, what is a 'small order' for Wal-Mart might be very large for another company. "Because of their importance to their...
By lowering ordering costs, Wal-Mart has made ordering small batches with greater frequency a profitable reality" (Atkinson 2011).
For most companies, typically food or technology organizations that have high holding costs for inventory (because of perishability and the dangers of technical obsolescence) and low ordering costs, JIT is ideal. When it adopted JIT, "Wal-Mart didn't even have particularly high holding costs, but they realized it would be profitable to lower ordering costs which led to high holding costs as a ratio of holding costs to ordering costs" (Atkinson 2011). JIT and Wal-Mart's 'lean' processing allows it to keep costs low, pass those cost savings onto customers, and thus retain its status as a company that is able to offer the lowest prices, all of the time.
Question 2: What are the benefits and difficulties does this organization face in implement JIT concepts?…
References
Atkinson, Charles. (2011). McDonald's: A guide to JIT. Inventory Management Review.
Retrieved July 31, 2011 at http://www.inventorymanagementreview.org/justintime/
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