Lastly the headcount may have been reduced, which has an immediate impact upon the bottom line but a far more dire impact on the company's knowledge base, which usually becomes evident later in escaped defects, missed deadlines and escalating material costs. Somebody is bound to mention inventory at some time or another, so everyone tramps out onto the floor to take a snapshot unit count of the inventory...
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Then they present the result as sure-fire proof that since the inventory has dropped since the end of the financial year that lean is working! But what about the adjustment made at the end of last year? And what about that huge shipment that shipped yesterday? A difficulty of lean is that multiple metrics are involved (safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, morale, etc...
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