JIT principals and ERP
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1. How could JIT principals be incorporated in a supply chain and manufacturing operations?
2. How can you assess a MRP/ERP package's usefulness in supporting the efforts to monitor, control, and improve your inventory management efforts? What should you realistically expect of a MRP/ERP after it is first implemented?
3. What strategic or tactical opportunities can the organization pursue? Prioritize a list if there is more than one item.
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1. How could JIT principals be incorporated in your supply chain and manufacturing operations?
JIT is a philosophy of continuous improvement in which non-value-adding activities (or wastes) are identified and JIT is not about automation. JIT eliminates waste by providing the environment to perfect and simplify the processes. JIT is a collection of techniques used to improve operations. It can also be a new production system that is used to produce goods or services.
According to Wikipedia, Just in Time (JIT) is an inventory strategy implemented to improve the return on investment of a business by reducing in-process inventory and its associated costs. Companies such a Fleetwood RV's, Toyota and Harley-Davison have seen a tremendous improvement of their products with the implementation of just-in-time inventory programs .The purpose of the JIT method is to reduce cost and time allowing inventory purchased or delivered to spend less time in production or storage. In the peer review, Does Manufacturing Need to Make JIT Delivery Work? The author Seyed-Mahomand Aghazadeh list five steps to transmit JIT:
1. Awareness Revolution- abolishing old concepts and adopting new one
2. Concepts for workplace improvement-sorting, orderliness, cleanliness, cleanup
in addition, discipline
1. Flow Manufacturing- is production of a single piece of product at given time.
2. Standard Operations- producing quality safely and less expensively through efficient rules and method of people
3. Multi-Process Handling- one worker is responsible for several processes in a work cell.
The main objectives of JIT in purchasing inventory are address in the article Implementing JIT Purchasing: Does the Level of Technical Complexity in the Production Process Make a Difference? Author Hale Kaynak lists three characteristics.
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