Eliminate Inventory Waste and More with JIT Delivery
Just-In-Time (JIT) delivery is an inventory management approach designed to eliminate waste by "receiving goods only as they [are needed] for production processes." [1] While JIT delivery is most often correlated with combating the issue of inventory waste, it is also perfectly applicable to the elimination of D.O.W.N.T.I.M.E and all of the 8 wastes of lean.
In construction or manufacturing processes, inventory waste is generally the result of unnecessary stockpiling of materials due to over-estimating and over-ordering. But it can also include and/or lead to the unnecessary use of said materials, thus translating to a whole host of wasted effort, time, and material.