Abstract
Just-in-time (JIT) till recently has been more confined to manufacturing sectors. But the recent literature is full of articles on JIT in purchasing and service sectors [1–3]in Japanese and western countries. Somehow, this idea has not percolated down to the developing world where many manufacturers are still suffering from “not invented here” kind of syndrome. They have their mind set about the old system of purchasing and manufacturing and any thing new finds a lot of resistance in getting absorbed in their rigid concept. In this article an effort has been made to work out a conceptual model for the JIT application in the purchase section of an integrated steel plant in India. The following issues have been considered: (a) Identification and classification of materials and vendors which can be brought under JIT network. (b) Suggesting a freight consolidation model (FCM) to collect the items from the vendors.
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