Book

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

Eliyahu M. Goldratt · Goodreads Paid Intermediate

Not an inventory book on the surface, but the Theory of Constraints it teaches, find the bottleneck, don't optimize anything else until you fix it, is exactly the discipline that stops founders from micromanaging the wrong SKUs while their hero product stocks out.

• System performance is capped by its single biggest constraint, not the average
• Optimizing a non-constraint step is wasted effort, sometimes actively harmful
• Reframes 'reduce inventory' as one lever among throughput and operating expense