JUST IN-TIME INVENTORY MANAGEMENT An increasingly popular technique is just-in-time yIT) inventory manage- ment, which eliminates waste by using smaller quantities of materials that arrive "just in time" for use in the transformation process and therefore require less stor- age space and other inventory management expense. JIT minimizes inventory by providing an almost continuous flow of items from suppliers to the production facility. Many U.S. companies, including General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, lBM, and Harley Davidson, have adopted JIT to reduce costs and boost efficiency. Ford estimates that just-in-time parts delivery from suppliers (which it calls in sequence delivery), along with modular assembly, has resulted in annual savings of $9 million at its Wixon, Michigan, factory.