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Discuss how just-in-time manufacturing might affect a Job Shop. (Consider both positive and negative impacts on both internal and external operations.)

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Discuss how just-in-time manufacturing might affect a Job Shop. (Consider both positive and negative impacts on both internal and external operations.)

The effects of the just-in-time manufacturing involve the following:

Positive:
- fast paced in-process inventory
- faster factory response time
- lesser choices of materials that needed to be used which might result in an increase in product quality but if workers are not creative, then it results in delay
- reduction of set up times ...

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