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      Critical elements in implementations of just-in-time management: empirical study of cement industry in Pakistan

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          In recent years, inventory management is continuous challenge for all organizations not only due to heavy cost associated with inventory holding, but also it has a great deal to do with the organizations production process. Cement industry is a growing sector of Pakistan’s economy which is now facing problems in capacity utilization of their plants. This study attempts to identify the key strategies for successful implementation of just-in-time (JIT) management philosophy on the cement industry of Pakistan. The study uses survey responses from four hundred operations’ managers of cement industry in order to know about the advantages and benefits that cement industry have experienced by Just in time (JIT) adoption. The results show that implementing the quality, product design, inventory management, supply chain and production plans embodied through the JIT philosophy which infect enhances cement industry competitiveness in Pakistan. JIT implementation increases performance by lower level of inventory, reduced operations & inventory costs was reduced eliminates wastage from the processes and reduced unnecessary production which is a big challenge for the manufacturer who are trying to maintain the continuous flow processes. JIT implementation is a vital manufacturing strategy that reaches capacity utilization and minimizes the rate of defect in continuous flow processes. The study emphasize the need for top management commitment in order to incorporate the necessary changes that need to take place in cement industry so that JIT implementation can take place in an effective manner.

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                Contributors
                miqureshi@ciit.net.pk
                mevy.iftikhar@yahoo.com
                mnbhatti@ciit.net.pk
                tauqeers@ciit.net.pk
                khalidzaman@ciit.net.pk
                Journal
                Springerplus
                Springerplus
                SpringerPlus
                Springer International Publishing (Cham )
                2193-1801
                1 December 2013
                1 December 2013
                2013
                : 2
                : 645
                Affiliations
                Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan
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                690
                10.1186/2193-1801-2-645
                3858593
                70bcd5e8-4938-4a72-961b-f6f3eda21e79
                © Qureshi et al.; licensee Springer. 2013

                This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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                : 27 August 2013
                : 21 November 2013
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                production process,structural equation model,cement industry,just-in-time management,pakistan

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