Companies everywhere have ran into the situation where someone has made a grandiose error and mistakenly ordered to little of a needed part, product or any other item which may be required for their operating system. This can be a huge headache not to mention a great deal of stress. It may seem odd but some companies actually have their products delivered precisely before they are scheduled to run out of their product.

This is better known as JIT or just in time inventory. JIT is a strategy where inventory management is aimed at monitoring the inventory process so that costs associated with inventory control are reduced. This process relies on an efficient manor of carefully monitoring the usage of materials within the production of goods and ordering their replacements so that these items are delivered shortly before they are required.

Tuppas software is one software manufacture which has experienced much success with JIT software. One example of the work they have created is a system for a large oil and gasoline manufacture which in a nut shell, scheduled delivery of gasoline to stations just before their inventory levels were about to run out. Other organizations which are incorporating JIT into their processes include fast food giant McDonalds. How their process works is they cook each food item to order instead of keeping a large quantity of cooked food on hand waiting for demand. After a period of time this food must be disposed of because it is spoiled and can not be served to their customers. Of course McDonalds is quite different from many manufacturing organizations however they are very good at delivering higher quality goods at a lower price and with a higher amount of customer service.

JIT inventory systems can be utilized as web-based systems which mean the organizations can track the progression of their products from place to place with real time updates available to alert personnel when products have arrived at their destinations. Additionally, JIT can send purchase orders to the proper personnel notifying them that stock needs to be ordered. This will be a great advantage for manufactures which will help them reduce time spent tracking products and ordering.

Take a look at this article that talks about Agile Manufacturing solutions that are available. There is a lot of information that will be rather useful and can help organizations achieve agile manufacturing. Take a few minutes and read over it, I believe it will really be worth your time.