Just-In-Time at Valley Memorial Hospital

Describe the essential components of JIT. Describe how JIT is applicable to a service operation such as VMH.

Responsiveness to customer needs is critical for VMH. Describe how JIT principles can help improve the customer response.

Explain how you think JIT techniques can be used to meet the needs of patients in the maternity ward for a variety of supplies, in just the right quantity at just the right time.

Maintaining a uniform load on the facility by synchronizing the demand and supply is an important JIT concept, especially for service operations. Among the variety of services provided by VMH, describe where you think this concept can be beneficially applied.

VMH maintains inventory of a variety of laboratory equipment, surgical instruments, and supplies, which it buys from a number of suppliers. Describe some JIT supplier relationship techniques that can be used to reduce inventory while assuring material availability.