work-in-process

There were racks and multishelved carts and bins on wheels – all filled with unfinished materials, what was known as work-in-process inventory, or WIP.

VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010

There were racks and multishelved carts and bins on wheels – all filled with unfinished materials, what was known as work-in-process inventory, or WIP.

VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010

There were racks and multishelved carts and bins on wheels – all filled with unfinished materials, what was known as work-in-process inventory, or WIP.

VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010

There were racks and multishelved carts and bins on wheels – all filled with unfinished materials, what was known as work-in-process inventory, or WIP.

VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010

Because, Bobby, if you did everything that WING told you to do, you would scarcely be able to walk through the aisles, there would be so much work-in-process inventory piled everywhere.

VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010

Inventory, as a set of numbers, includes all of our raw materials and work-in-process – all the money that we intend to transform into throughput.

VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010

Huge quantities of work-in-process inventories were exactly what Lean was supposed to eliminate.

VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010

Yet work-in-process inventory was nearly the same as at the start: thirty-one at the concluding turn, as opposed to twenty-eight at the beginning.

VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010

Gone were the Lean supermarkets, as these temporary storage areas for work-in-process were no longer needed – the reason being that WIP only accumulated where it was supposed to, which was in front of the Drum.

VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010

I thought Lean was supposed to reduce work-in-process inventory.

VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010