Manufacturers That Use Just-In-Time Manufacturing Systems Coordinate Closely with Suppliers

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Manufacturers that use just-in-time manufacturing systems coordinate closely with suppliers to ensure that materials and supplies arrive just before they are needed in the manufacturing process. While just-in-time systems can offer major advantages in terms of inventory costs, they must be carefully managed. If a firm found that its just-in-time system was badly managed, leading to frequent manufacturing delays due to missing parts, this would represent a(n) ________ in a SWOT analysis.

• A)weakness
• B)opportunity
• C)threat
• D)strength
• E)metric

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