All About the Paper -- Dickeson

Since the mid-'80s we've been aware of JIT—Just in Time—as the need to increase turnover of inventories. We've given it lip service, but that's all. Since Goldratt wrote "The Goal" in 1986 we've been sort of aware of the necessity of reducing constraints in the flow of materials. We've listened to how timing workflow by the drum-buffer-rope idea would increase the speed of throughput in our plants.