Abstract
Article history: Received October 8, 2011 Received in Revised form November, 18, 2011 Accepted 22 November 2011 Available online 25 November 2011 Just in time is one of the most important components of having efficient production plan. The primary objective of JIT is to reduce the amount of storage as much as possible to remove the cost of inventories and work-in-progress. However, the implementation of JIT is a tedious task especially in developing countries, where there are shortages for essential infrastructures and increase the risk of production in case of JIT adaptation. In this paper, we present a survey to detect important factors preventing JIT implementation in Iran. The proposed study designs a questionnaire for assessing important factors influencing JIT adaptation, which includes inflation, political sanction, unreliable suppliers, shortage of cash flow and weak organizational culture. The results of our survey confirm that shortage of cash flow is the most important factor, follows by economical sanction and inflation.
Highlights
Just in time (JIT) is a cost efficient technique, which attempts to improve the return on investment by removing in-process inventory and associated carrying costs as much as possible
The proposed study designs a questionnaire for assessing important factors influencing JIT adaptation, which includes inflation, political sanction, unreliable suppliers, shortage of cash flow and weak organizational culture
We look to find the impact of five important factors influencing JIT adaptation including inflation, political sanction, unreliable suppliers, shortage of cash flow and weak organizational culture
Summary
Just in time (JIT) is a cost efficient technique, which attempts to improve the return on investment by removing in-process inventory and associated carrying costs as much as possible. Mullarkey et al (1995) performed a two-phase investigation to study employee reactions to JIT manufacturing practices Their results indicated that the introduction of product-based manufacturing, incorporating strong elements of total quality management (TQM) was related to different factors such as increases in employee autonomy; increases in some job demands; etc. They reported an existence of diversity in different elements, which affect the use of various components of JIT and claimed that infrastructure practices were more determining than contextual factors This occurs in particular with advanced manufacturing techniques, basic quality tools and the management of the relationships with suppliers and customers. The organization of this paper first explains details of the survey in section 2, the results of the survey are given in section 3 and the paper ends with concluding remarks
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