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It would be nice if you could back that up with some facts, considering Toyota has been using some variant of this system since 1948.

Please provide a citation for how JIT manufacturing cost TM "far more than it saved them"?

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Bad business practices can survive for a long time.

I do not have any skin in on the game as to how effective or not JIT is, but wouldn’t the correct question be, how did Toyota fair vs non-JIT companies? As GP was implying, JIT is fine day-to-day, but can make failure conditions worse.