Relationship Between Agile Manufacturing & Just-In-Time

Agile manufacturing is the winning strategy to be adopted by manufacturers for dramatic performance enhancements to become national and international leaders in an increasingly competitive market of fast changing customer requirements. The methodology of this research is archive type which exploited of various foreign articles and books. A structural model includes the primary components of Just-In-Time-purchasing and production. Paper is focus on survey and model that indicate agile manufacturing has a direct positive relationship with the operational performance of the firm. Lean manufacturing is based on cost cutting. The move to lean production from agile and vice versa is a major challenging task.