How is supplied involvement an essential element of jesting time.
Earlier you had studied that there are three essential elements of just in time teamwork discipline
and supplier involvement in this lecture.
You will learn about the supplier involvement element of just in time.
If your organization practices that just in time production system then it requires reliable suppliers
who can supply high quality components and materials in the required quantities.
Therefore you are just in time organization maintains long term business relationships with a few selected
suppliers.
Your organization may also invite its suppliers representatives to participate in design review to suggest
new designs and methods for improving quality or productivity.
Generally you're just in time organization will have contracts with your suppliers to provide supplies
of the required quality specifications and target prices.
This is done in preference to inviting competitive bids from a set of suppliers.
The contract should be reasonably profitable to both the supplier as well as your organization in the
long run.
The supplier should abide by the rules and regulations of the contract and supply materials within the
time specified in the contract.
Your organization can also suggest means and provide assistance to improve supplier productivity and
product quality.
Your organization may also wish to share its production plans and schedules with your suppliers so that
they can plan their levels of business and capacity requirement and make necessary arrangements with
their vendors in just in time.
The presence of trust and commitment is very important in building partnerships between suppliers and
your organization.
Such partnerships help both achieve higher productivity levels since the contract between supplier and
buyer is long term in nature.
The attitude of each party towards the other should be fed long term contracts provide security to your
suppliers as long as they are competitive and committed to building effective partnerships.
Depends on the four elements trust communication linearity of production and time to make changes the
supplier should trust his customer.
That is your organization which practices just in time and have confidence that you will provide him
more business and make timely payments if his requirements are met.
This makes both farms work more closely than actually specified in the contract.
Communications also play an important role in establishing a good partnership to overcome communication
problems.
Your organization can establish a buyer quality engineer team that stays in constant touch with its
suppliers this reduces potential miscommunication with your suppliers suppliers should also inform your
organization about new programs undertaken by them to improve quality and to ensure the timely delivery
of supplies.
Linear production could use relate to the development of production schedules with uniform workloads.
Since these cardinals contribute to the improvement of your organization's manufacturing operations
the supplying form should tailor these schedules to your organizational needs.
Maintaining linear production can use requires the identification and elimination of production bottlenecks
balance in the production system and reduction in setup time.
Your organization should also provide enough time to your suppliers so that they can respond to the
changes in demand.
Sometimes suppliers have to purchase new materials add more machinery and equipment hire and train labor
etc. in line with the requirements of your organization that practices just in time.