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Step 5, vendor/customer links, marks the final step in the implementation of JIT. Having completed steps 1–4, a company wanting to gain maximum benefit from JIT must now take a wider view. So far the focus has been on in-house changes intended to improve the manufacturing process or to improve manufacturing control. But a manufacturer can only gain so much benefit from in-house changes and in order to give scope for further improvements changes in vendor/customer links may have to be suggested. These changes may well emerge as critical issues in the final stages of the implementation.
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© 1988 P.J. O’Grady
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O’Grady, P.J. (1988). Step 5: Vendor/Customer Links. In: Putting the Just-In-Time Philosophy into Practice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7810-5_8
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