“…As a result, the use of operating systems based on JIT (Just-In-Time) has widely spread in order to maintain a stable inventory level (Kumar, 2010;Cedillo-Campos, Sanchez, Vadali, Villa & Menezes, 2014;Vörös & Rappai, 2016). In fact, the impact of JIT practices on manufacturing performance, in particular in the automotive industry, has also been the subject of a number of analyses that have proven its advantages to improve inventory management, quality, and global performance (Vörös & Rappai, 2016;Memaria, Rahimb, Absic, Ahmad & Hassana, 2016;Chakraborty & Chatterjee, 2016;Green, Inman, Birouc & Whitten, 2014;Belekoukias, Garza-Reyes & Kumar, 2014).…”