General Automotive Currently Uses an ERP System to Manage All

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General Automotive currently uses an ERP system to manage all of its production operations and coordinate them with the other operations of the company. The company also wants to implement a just-in-time (JIT) inventory system. Unfortunately for General Automotive, ERP is incompatible with JIT, so if it adopts the new inventory system it will have to abandon ERP.

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