Supply chains can be disrupted at both local and global levels. Just-In-Time (JIT) companies should be particularly interested in managing supply chain failure risk as they often have very little inventory to buffer themselves when their upstream supply chain fails. We develop previous research further and present a strategic framework to manage supply chain failure in JIT supply chains. We ide...

The International Manufacturing Strategy Survey (IMSS) have collected data in 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2006. The paper does longitudinell studies on these data focussing on data relevant for Lean Management. We see that there has been an adoption of the Just in Time and Lean issues, but that there is still a way to go.

Introduction According to The National Education Association Research Division (1994), student acquisition of higher order thinking skills is of national critical concern. Increasingly, educational leaders are recognizing that the learning process is of critical importance and understanding the way individuals learn is the key to improving the educational system. There is substantial research w...

Kristina M. Appelt is Librarian/Assistant Professor at Prairie State College; e-mail: kappelt@prairiestate. edu. Kimberly Pendell is Assistant Information Services Librarian at University of Illinois at Chicago; e-mail: [email protected]. Communication and collaboration with faculty are increasingly important in the development of both curriculum-integrated and stand-alone “just in time” library...

Cultural content providers face the challenge of disseminating their content to the general public. Meanwhile, access to Web resources shifts from desktop to mobile devices and the wide range of contextual sensors of those devices can be used to proactively retrieve and present resources in an unobtrusive manner. This proactive process, also known as just-in-time retrieval, increases the amount...

The dominance of English as the world language of publication has had a decisive impact on the dissemination of information and innovation across cultures, with a resulting tendency to a standardization of scientific conceptualization. This dominance does not only impact scientific and academic discourse, but also the whole range of professional and technical texts representative of various spe...

The healthcare industry in the United States is going through major challenges in terms of financial and human resources. One of the preferred ways to address this issue is to develop effective prevention systems so that the people can live healthy lives and in turn minimize the use of the medical system. Preventing diseases requires people to adopt healthy lifestyles. Advances in pervasive tec...

Foreknowledge of demand is useful in the control of a production-inventory system. Knowing the customer orders in advance makes it possible to anticipate properly. It is an important condition to produce and deliver the right quantity of the right product “just-in-time”. It reduces the need of safety stock and spare capacity. But the question of the effectiveness of foreknowledge is not an easy...

Time performances and time-based competition concepts are analysed, introducing three types of time-based competitors. A traditional and an innovative path towards time-based competition are then recognised, the former achievable by over-resource applying, while the latter by practices related to just-in-time and concurrent engineering. It is explained how making a "rm structurally faster leads...