Organize acceptance when spare parts get into the warehouse, and hand over to the spare parts keeper.

"When you add the employees at the more than 50 component suppliers, this work is supporting another 180 jobs," says Joan Magrath, vice President of sales and engineering at Mack Molding.

When Dell adopted just-in-time delivery for the electronics parts of its computers, it substantially cut warehousing and depreciation costs and outperformed its competitors.