That not quite the same thing. The “just in time” and it all being automatic, run directly from the register is slightly newer and more about how they run orders and warehousing on the backend.
When I was selling beer wholesale and started working with 7-Elevens it actually became a major hurdle. Their corporates stores no one actually physically orders anything.
Stock pars were set, in part automagically by a mysterious office some where. Though they could be set/tweaked on site, right in the register.
When products scanned through the register, showed what was onhand was below par. The system, again right from the register, would just pass an order through to our inventory system. And the delivery would go.
Pieces scanned in at the reg or with a hand unit, and right on the shelf. 100% truck to shelf, product never touched their system till it was already on the shelves.
The more typical setup had actual people in an office or back room preparing and sending orders, of enough stock for a couple of weeks. Warehousing on site. And scanning things in through a separate system. A lot coming through their own warehousing.
