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Article: Just-in-time model eliminates Posat Monroe Truck Equipment.(Monroe Truck Equipment manufacturing company)
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- Purchasing
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- August 16, 2007
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Roger Schulz admits he's "hardly the first guy to go to a true just-in-time daily delivery" for manufacturing raw materials. However, the purchasing manager for the Snow and Ice Division of the Monroe Truck Equipment manufacturing company in Monroe, Wis., reckons his purchasing program for steel structurals-bars, channels, angles and rods-may be somewhat unique in that he uses no purchase orders, no receivers and no invoices. And, because of that, "a lot of nonproductive effort by buyers has just disappeared."
At various other companies, veteran steel buyer Schulz lived through the transformation of the purchase order from "a stark, minimal ...