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Since the Just In Time (JIT) philosophy was born, and thanks to the success of the Toyota production system, pull control strategies have been adopted by numerous companies all over the world, both in the manufacturing and service areas. JIT paradigms and tools are also commonly taught in the engineering, business and management sections of many schools and universities. Meanwhile, if the contributions of these approaches are now well recognized, it is also commonly known that their practical benefits can be achieved onlywhen they are applied for certain particular types of production environments. As a matter of fact, several key assumptions have to be met to ensure efficiency, such as the stability of production demand, reliable production resources, etc. Consequently, numerous production managers would be interested in exploiting the potential benefits of JIT in other types of production environments. This objective implies to be able to design new JIT methodologies and tools (or to adapt existing ones), which could cope with different types of systems or would be more robust to the violation of the classical assumptions. Thus, new pull approaches are needed, as well asmodeling and optimization techniques, whichwould allow them to be evaluated, compared and configured. The integration of pull control in lean context or modern information systems also represents an important issue.

Special issue on pull strategies in manufacturing systems and supply chains: recent advances