Abstract
Abstract An increasing number of manufacturing firms in the US are developing and implementing just-in-time (JIT) purchasing. A unique aspect of JIT purchasing is an organizational commitment to eliminating raw material and work-in-process (WIP) inventories, and replacing them with frequent deliveries of a given part or parts. With WIP inventories greatly reduced, there has been significant concern about the effectiveness of the traditional transportation systems to meet JIT's delivery requirements. Unless new transportation systems have been developed by the buyer to meet JIT purchasing practices, the implementation of JIT will be unsuccessful or inefficient at best. In this article we present several essential factors which need to be considered by the buyer companies to meet these delivery requirements. These steps were developed from an empirical study done at Nissan Motor Manufacturing Corporation USA (Smyrna Plant), Hewlett-Packard (Greeley Division), General Motors Corporation (Buick Division), and...
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