Study of Effectiveness of Using ERP Systems in Cost Optimization of Just-In-Time Manufacturing Cases

The software selection of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is important phase in decision making and product cost optimization. The initial cost of any AIS Expert System is large and takes place in capital cost of software resources. The expert systems are studying both, quantity and quality. Application of ERP as expert systems in AIS to handle the manufacturing and cost optimization using information technology concepts faces the cost of ERP in many small business areas. The interesting area of study that involved in this paper is that, a plant that manufacture by order – in other words, the pants or manufacturers those has no standard product output and all or the most of its outputs are flexible deepening on the costumer order-. Such that process is so called “Just-In-Time” order. This paper aims to study the effectiveness of use the ERP software in Just-In-Time Manufacturing cases in Jordan.