How will the risk management impact the success of just-in-time implementation?

ABSTRACT

JIT implementation already reduces wastes and total costs, however leads to complexity and risks. One of the most important tasks of top management is to recognize and address critical risks in JIT implementation. The main objective of this study is to illustrate the results of a survey applied to 100 firms in the Moroccan automotive industry which aims at investigate the activities related to risk management in JIT implementation and their relation with critical success factors (CSFs) or the key activities deployed during JIT implementation and the benefits obtained from JIT adoption. The research model was evaluated using the structural equations modeling (SEM). The results clearly shows that risk management construct is linked to the communication that exists between the company’s various governance levels, and that risk treatment is one of the most important factors for the successful JIT implementation, and that other factors, depend upon it.

KEYWORDS:

• Just-In-Time
• risks management
• structural equations modeling
• latent variable

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Notes on contributors

Fatima-Ezzahra Sebtaoui

Fatima-Ezzahra Sebtaoui is currently a PhD student in the Department of Mechanics in ENSEM Casablanca, Laboratory of Mechanical, Production, and Industrial Engineering, Hassan II University in Casablanca. He received his Industrial Engineering Diploma from the ENSAM Casablanca in Morocco. His research interests mainly include JIT implementation, operations management, and production management.

Ahmed Adri

Ahmed Adri is a Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department of ESTC High School of Technology, University Hassan II of Casablanca in Morocco. He obtained his Engineering and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the EMI and ENSEM Schools of Engineering in Morocco. He is a member of LMPGI Research Laboratory. His fields of research are: quality, project and supply chain managements, and nonlinear vibration.

Said Rifai

Said Rifai is a Professor and the Head of Mechanical Engineering Department at the ESTC High School, University Hassan II of Casablanca in Morocco. He obtained his PhD in Industrial Acoustics in 1988 from the Poitier University in France. He is a member of LMPGI Research Laboratory. He is also certified in Management and Improvement of the Quality from the ETS High School of Technology and College Bois de Boulogne Montreal in Canada. He is involved in training engineering and continuing education. His research interests are primarily in the fields of quality, safety and environmental managements, and logistics.

Kenza Sahaf

Kenza Sahaf is a PhD student in Industrial Engineering at the LMPGI Research Laboratory and ENSEM School of Engineering, University Hassan II of Casablanca in Morocco. She obtained her double degree in Logistics Engineering from the ESITH High School of Textile and Clothing Industry in Morocco and from the ENSAIT High School of Arts and Textile Industries of Roubaix in France.