Zero inventory management: facts or fiction? Lessons from Japan
Zero inventory management: facts or fiction? Lessons from Japan
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零库存管理：事实还是虚构？
DOI：
10.1016/s0925-5273(98)00022-x
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发表时间：
1999
影响因子：
12
通讯作者：
Masaru Yamamoto
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作者：
J. D. Haan;Masaru Yamamoto
如果库存是浪费的，产品寿命以越来越快的速度下降，公司应该对拥有这样的库存非常谨慎。由于JIT实践起源于日本，如果零库存管理是可能的，应该可以在日本公司找到它。本文通过八个案例，将理论思考与日本的经验进行了比较。尽管这些工厂力争没有投入、在制品和产出的库存，但他们没有达到这一目标。对于这些类型中的每一种，其他因素都是相关的：投入的地理和基础设施因素，在制品的技术原因，以及产出的市场和技术因素阻碍公司在这方面取得成功。因此，至少就目前而言，零库存管理是虚构的，但西方工厂可以从日本在这一领域逐步改善的做法中学到很多东西。
If inventory is waste and product lifetimes decline at a growing speed, a firm should be very cautious about having such inventories. Since JIT practices originated in Japan, if zero inventory management is possible, one should find it in Japanese firms. In this paper, theoretical reflections are compared with Japanese experiences from eight case studies. Although these factories strive for no inventory of inputs, work in process, and output, they have not reached this goal. For each of these types, other factors are relevant: geographical and infrastructural factors for the inputs, technological reasons for work in process, and market and technological factors for output prevent firms from being successful in this respect. So zero inventory management is, at least for the time being, a fiction, but western factories can, nonetheless, learn a lot from the step-by-step improvements in Japan in this field.