Clearly, JIT is much more than an inventory management system. Inventories, however,
are particularly viewed as representing waste. They tie up resources such as cash, space,
and labor. They also conceal inefficiencies in production and increase the complexity of a
firm’s information system. Thus, even though JIT focuses on more than inventory management,
control of inventory is an important ancillary benefit. In this chapter, the inventory
dimension of JIT is emphasized. In Chapter 11, other benefits and features of JIT
were described. Chapter 12, in particular, focused on nonvalue-added activity analysis