Also, interest paid on bonds is a tax-deductible business investment for the organization. The problem is that interest payments generally are made on bonds even when no profits are earned. For this reason, a smaller corporation can sometimes raise much capital by issuing bonds.
Just in time (JIT) inventory management is a system created to lower inventory costs and increase manufacturing efficiency. JIT aligns materials and components orders with production schedules in order to reduce inventory levels to the lowest possible level.
It was developed by Toyota in order to reduce the costs of its car manufacturing processes. Once I visited a Toyota pickup factory and it was amazing to see that the whole inventory of finished engines was 4 units, and the factory produced more than 500 pickups per day.
