“There are three measurements which express the goal of making money perfectly well, but which also permit you to develop operational rules for running your plant. Their names are throughput, inventory and operational expense.”

—  Eliyahu M. Goldratt

Source: The goal: a process of ongoing improvement (1984), p. 60

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