PART 1 - TONS OF PUNKS, ONE BIG JERK CHAPTER 3: TOUCHGRASS The Process Tzars

"Toyota’s supermarket method introduced in 1954 evolved into the Kanban System and then Just-in-Time production."

Toyota's official history dates the supermarket method to 1954 and describes its evolution into the Kanban System and then Just-in-Time production.

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