Improving Product Quality Based on Supply Chain Effectiveness and T-JIT Production Implementation

Abstract

Success at the supply chain level requires a supply chain management strategy and its ability to handle organizational management and as result of that has effect on product quality. The research results show that T-JIT as a sustainable strategy, from supply chain management as a factor affecting product quality and supply chain capability as factors affecting product quality. Therefore, organizations that are willing to compete on the supply chain level are recommended to be among the JIT-productions, JIT-buyers, JIT-sellers and suppliers of JIT-information. In summary, production managers must take advantage of a T-JIT production strategy. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of T-JIT production system implementation and supply chain effectiveness on improving product quality. Statistical population of this research is 305 managers, supervisors and administrative staff of production industries. Data were collected using a questionnaire and analyzed with SPSS and AMOS software. Finally, it was observed that supply chain management strategy has a positive and significant effect on product quality, supply chain capability and T-JIT production. On the other hand, T-JIT production has a positive and significant effect on product quality and supply chain capability, and also the positive and significant effect of supply chain capability on product quality was confirmed.