First of all, top management must accept idea of the JIT. Without their permission it is
not possible to move on with the whole process. They are responsible for ensuring
financial resources for the project. Perhaps the most difficult thing for engineers is to
convince managers that the company under consideration really needs
implementation of the JIT concept in order to improve business processes.
Convincing managers to allow evaluation of JIT is not only a problem that comes
from human. Second step for a company is success which is connected with the fact
that employees also have to understand significance of the new concept. Very
important in this step is to explain to workers that JIT is not some kind of bad monster
and not something unimportant for their work. It is desirable to hold a series of
training sessions to familiarize employees with the fundamentals of the JIT concept.
When we succeed once to explain to our human resources the importance of the
new concept and if they become cognizant about it, now it is possible to continue.
The third step would be the setup of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning). ERP is a
system which integrates all data and processes of an organization into a single
unified system. It is impossible nowadays to run successful production without strong
support of an information system. So, it means that ERP requests the software and
hardware systems with a secure and huge data base which is able to collect all
information about resources. With a centralized data base it is much easier to
manage all enterprise resources. It is especially important for logistics because, as