Raman Gupta , Dixit Garg

Abstract

Just-In-Time was initially used by the Toyota Motor Company of Japan, after which it took them 20 years to fully implement the system. It is assumed to be a very effective means to reduce the wastage of resources and to keep it at its minimum level. It is an important philosophy to control the flow of materials within a company. It helps to improve the manufacturing efficiency by eliminating non-value added activities. JIT manufacturing by now is a widely researched and applied manufacturing philosophy, in a variety of industries across the globe. However, most of the reported instances of successful and unsuccessful JIT practices lie with in large manufacturing settings. Literature shows that JIT does not restrict itself to high technology environments which make extensive use of modern technologies. This paper makes an attempt to find out the problems for poor rate of JIT implementation in SMEs of India.