Jerking Knees – An Oral History
Several aeons ago, when Traffic Managers were just beginning to rise up out of the primordial ooze with thoughts of morphing into Logisticians, or worse, Supply Chain Managers, an epidemic of Just-In-Time swept across the planet.
Made possible only by the plentiful availability of inexpensive fuel, JIT was a compelling concept. Knees jerked, nearly in unison, and even people who had no idea what JIT was claimed to be doing it.
Other manufacturing and distribution programs, many acronymically challenging, came and went, and the constant jerking of knees led to a corporate form of premature rheumatoid arthritis.
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Bruce Strahan is a Partners in The Progress Group, Inc., an international supply chain and logistics consulting firm headquartered in Atlanta. He lead the Supply Chain and Manufacturing practice groups for TPG. Bruce did his graduate work at Georgia Tech, and was previously a Manager in Coopers & Lybrand’s SysteCon division. He may be reached at
770-804-9920 or bstrahan@theprogressgroup.com
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