The research analyzes the particularities of the Mexican maquiladora industry in the Just in Time (JIT) implementation process as a global example of maquiladoras, analyzing 31 competitive advantages ...or benefits obtained after a JIT implementation process, which were integrated into four dimensions:
Human Resources
,
Production Process
,
Inventory Management
, and
Economic Performance
of companies. The study proposes a structural equation model which assumes that human factor is the most important benefit obtained after JIT implementation and is proposed as the initial or independent latent variable, being the final latent variable or last benefits the company’s
Economic Performance
. The final results in the model show how the capabilities and skills in
Human Resources
affect 86 % of the variance of the
Production Process
, which together explains the 82 % of
Inventory Management
. Finally,
Human Resources
,
Production Process
, and
Inventory Management
explain 79 % of
Economic Performance
obtained from JIT.
Main benefits obtained from a successful JIT implementation Alcaraz, Jorge L. García; Macías, Aidé A. Maldonado; Luevano, Diana Jazmín Prieto ...
International journal of advanced manufacturing technology,
10/2016, Letnik:
86, Številka:
9-12
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Literature has reported 31 benefits obtained by companies after a successful JIT implementation. However, this research reduces the list by means of a data reduction technique to identify those ...essential benefits that must be pursued. The 31 benefits are integrated in a questionnaire that is administered to 144 production managers in maquiladoras in Mexico to measure the extent to which they are obtained according to respondents. One the one hand, a validation process and descriptive analysis are carried out for every benefit by considering their median values as a measure of central tendency and interquartile range values as a measure of dispersion. On the other hand, data reduction was achieved by means of a factor analysis based on principal components and varimax rotation. Four main factors related to JIT benefits are identified after the factor analysis, which explain 67.27 % of total variance of data. Identified factors concern inventory management, production process, human resources, and economic benefits.
