Persistent issues in the automotive industry - such as delivery delays and frequent stock-outs - indicate that the vision of perfectly synchronized flows of raw materials, parts, and components within complex industrial production and logistics systems remains a significant challenge. To...

Background: The literature on measuring the complexity of production systems employs the graph and information theory. This study analyzes these systems and their coordination under varying states of control, with a focus on the probability of unfavorable events and their temporal...

This paper studies the simultaneous minimization of total weighted earliness-tardiness (TWET) and makespan in a just-in-time single-machine scheduling problem (JIT-SMSP) with sequence-dependent setup times and distinct due windows, allowing idle times in the schedules. Multiple variants of...

Background: This study examined the role of total quality management, just-in-time, and green supply chain management practices to improve environmental performance. Methods: Data from 207 manufacturing industry respondents from a developing economy were tested through a quantitative method...

The JITs Network consist of experts, appointed by each EU Member State, representing judicial and law enforcement dimensions of a JIT. At a national level, the experts act as contact points whom practitioners can address with JIT-related questions. A list of contact points is accessible through...

Purpose: This research develops a model integrating inventory with order pick-up that considers both the vendor's capacities and the pick-up time for the multi-vendor single-buyer (MVSB) system. Design/methodology/approach: A model of integrating inventory with pick-up of order considering both...

This paper proposes a novel method of Pareto front generation from a set of piecewise linear trade-off curves typically encountered in bi-objective just-in-time (JIT) scheduling problems. We have considered the simultaneous minimization of total weighted earliness and tardiness (TWET) and total...

Just-in-time (“JIT”) liquidity is a liquidity provision strat- egy found in blockchain-based automated market makers like the Uniswap Protocol, where a liquidity provider (“LP”) mints and burns a concen- trated position immediately before and after a swap. There have been wide-spread...

The Covid-19 pandemic and other recent disruptions in the early 2020s led to sections in the business press blaming Just-in-Time (JIT) practices for operational failings. Consequently, there are calls for moving away from JIT toward holding more inventory as preparation against future...

This study investigates whether the ability of top management teams (TMTs) influences efficient just-in-time (JIT) inventory management. Using a sample of U.S. listed firms spanning the period 1987 to 2018, our analyses, via mediation and moderation tests, show that more able TMTs enhance firm...

"The eponymous concept of Proximity is as follows: products and services are produced and provided ever closer to the moment of demand in time and space. As technological power accelerates, so does the transformative potential of proximity. This applies across industries -- from vertical farming...