This paper analyzes the impact of information technologies (IT) on logistics by conducting a survey of literatures on academic logistics journals and practitioner journals. The literature survey and practice find that third party logistic providers have better opportunity to leverage IT since they need to have interoperable IT systems with their customers. The business philosophy of Just-In-Tim...

With the widespread use of manufacturing philosophies such as Just-In-Time (JIT), emphasis has shifted to the simultaneous consideration of cardinal and ordinal data in supplier selection process. Traditionally, many optimization models of supplier selection assume that the average prices of related expenditures are constant. This is far beyond the real situation. In fact, suppliers usually off...

This study constructs multi-item scales to measure key components of JIT production and manufacturing strategy and examines the relationship between them, and the impact of manufacturing strategy on JIT performance for machinery, electrical & electronics and automobile industries in Japan, USA, and Italy. JIT production scales include JIT schedule, JIT layout, JIT delivery by suppliers, JIT lin...

We show that the advent of improved logistics management, including the “just-intime” (JIT) production system, can plausibly explain much of the dramatic (i.e., roughly 95%) growth of intra-firm trade in intermediates from Canadian affiliates to their U.S. MNC parents in the 1984-1995 period. The decline in tariffs and physical transport costs over this period was far too small (about 2.5%) to ...

The background and development of the new production philosophy are presented. The conceptual basis of the traditional and the new production philosophies, as applied in manufacturing, are examined. The traditional conceptual basis of construction is criticized, and an initial new interpretation of construction is given based on the new philosophy. Finally, the challenges of implementing the ne...

Dynamic superinstructions and replication can provide large speedups over plain interpretation. In a JVM implementation we have to overcome two problems to realize the full potential of these optimizations: the conflict between superinstructions and the quickening optimization; and the non-relocatability of JVM instructions that can throw exceptions. In this paper, we present solutions for thes...

A medium sized UK based academic publishers own a subsidiary printing business. Presently the Academic Printers (AP) is experiencing productions line flow problems reducing the efficiency of the operation. Most of the problems are generated by the imbalanced workflow through the system. By implementing a JIT production planning system it is hoped that some of the production problems can be reso...

For reasons well known, change has always been uncomfortable to business systems. There is some resistance and resentment whenever changes are made in the existing set-up more so in the case of technological change. New technologies have often brought structural changes to the business systems, which affect their cultural complexion as well. In recent years, there has been a stream of new innov...

The focus on the sequential nature of the improvement initiatives has neglected the synergistic effects among practices and literature lacks research on complementarity between internal and external bundles of practices. The aim of this paper is to test the existence of complementarity among internal and external just-in-time bundles. We run statistical analysis using the third round of High Pe...

Given the increased competitive pressures on manufacturing, many companies are interested in implementing Just-In-Time (JIT) manufacturing philosophies. At the shop floor level, one application of JIT is the introduction of kanbans in order to control in-process inventory. Traditionally, it has been argued that kanban systems work well when the shop floor environment is fairly stable. In this p...