| Article ID: | iaor19911950 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 31 |
| Start Page Number: | 79 |
| End Page Number: | 83 |
| Publication Date: | May 1990 |
| Journal: | Production and Inventory Management Journal |
| Authors: | Orth David, Hybil Richard, Korzan Dennis |
| Keywords: | production: JIT |
This prize-winning article in the undergraduate division of the 1989 International Students Awards Program sponsored by APICS concerns an effective implementation of JIT in a medium-sized manufacturer of petroleum processing and marketing products where rapid increase in number of products, erratic demand, a recession, and a change in focus of the market made the existing MRP-II system less effective.