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To: TTOSBT who wrote (152751)	1/31/2000 2:34:00 PM
From: edamo	Respond to of 176387

ttosbt...."intc, inventory..." sans, french for "without"....or no dividend... the comment you make about intc, demonstrates how when the "perfect model" grows, the control is shifted from user to supplier. it's a fault inherent in the very operation of the model....just ask the japanese who have been using it since 1972 (toyota kan-ban model), and have made adjustments when the supply chain was no longer strong enough to keep the user from going a drift into uncharted seas. dell did not create the model, "direct from dell" is not totally fresh, they took an existing model, applied it to a labor intense and poor materiel control type of assembly operation, and gained efficiencies heretofore unrealized. but it appears that dell management did not rely on history and assumed that there could be no potential flaws in perfection.........one merely has to ask why, that which is the model of perfection faltered.......simple answer..."no such thing as the perfect manufacturing model"