Implementation of Project Management, Erp, Jit, Scm, Tqm and Tpm: Empirical Study of Egyptian and Chinese Manufacturing Firms

Research on Just in Time (Jit), Total Quality Management (Tqm), Total Productive Maintenance (Tpm), Supply Chain Management (Scm), and Enterprise Resource Planning (Erp) generally investigate the implementation and impact of these programs in isolation. However, none of these paradigms is self sufficient and may not be powerful enough to deliver the improvements and innovations that are required nowadays to insure the survival and growth of a firm. They are not mutually exclusive and inconsistent. On the contrary, they need complementary support and may reinforce mutually to make use of their complementarily, inducement of side effects in favor of other paradigm's, mutual simulation and exploitation of shared values. More researchers have begun to discuss the importance of synergistic approaches by understanding the joint implementation and effect on manufacturing programs.