EFFECT OF JIT IMPLEMENTATION IN IRAN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY

Survival in the competition is considered as one of the most critical needs of any organization. Philosophy during production (JIT), remove any waste is accepted as one of the strategies and used by many organizations. JIT is a new system with inventory control and its main purpose is to minimize inventories and prevent stagnant capital to form. Implementation of this system leads to changes in the tools used by managers for planning and control decisions. "Just in time", is one of the newest approaches in production management issue that industry leaders around the world, the Japanese have been initiated, and was first employed at Toyota car plant, which was followed by a considerable success. This paper investigates the impact of using JIT, the automotive industry, as the country's largest car manufacturer. The study is the second assembly line for the company. The research method is descriptive and correlation, and for this purpose, regression and ANOVA were used. Population and sample are production and quality managers, warehouse managers, supervisors and foremen and supervisors responsible for training and installation engineering. The results of this study showed a significant association between implementation JIT and organizational performance.

 

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