The Goal Report
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The Goal Report1. What are the methods described in The Goal for identifying a bottleneck?The Goal describes a bottleneck as “any resource whose capacity is equal to or less than the demand placed upon it” (
Jonah describes that there is a “mathematical proof which could clearly show that when capacity is trimmed exactly to marketing demands, no more and no less, throughput goes down…because inventory goes up, the carrying cost of inventory-which is operational expense-goes down” (