International Journal of Physical Distribution & Materials Management: Volume 17 Issue 1

Strategies for the Implementation of JIT Purchasing

A. Ansari

In the early 1980s, when the concept of Japanese “just‐in‐time” (JIT) purchasing was introduced in the US, many companies wondered whether or not this new manufacturing philosophy…

Field Service Management: A Means to Competitive Advantage

Hervé Mathe

“Rarely is customer service discretionary. It is a requisite of getting and holding business, just like the generic product itself.” Theodore Levitt thus defined the importance of…

The Effect of New Technology on People in Physical Distribution

C.D.T. Watson‐Gandy

The distribution of goods has a very long history. It is distribution that enabled man to specialise in different functions or activities and, indeed, provided the means for…

Simulation Analysis of Just‐in‐Time Distribution

James H. Bookbinder, Timothy D. Locke

Just‐in‐time (JIT) production has been a subject of considerable research in the past few years. The Japanese were the first to actually use JIT systems rather than the…

Deregulation of the Motor Carrier Industry: A Retrospective Analysis

John T. Mentzer, Roger Gomes

The term deregulation, in reference to the (US) Motor Carrier Act 1980, has been used to represent significant reductions in government economic restrictions and government agency…