Lean Management

World-Class Lean Management

World-Class Lean Management requires development of a strategy that: leverages current technology, integrates both product and process design, enables improved service operations, synchronizes material and resource flows, constantly evaluates the need for improvement, maintains low inventory levels throughout supply chains, embeds quality failure prevention in every process step, and "pulls" inventory to meet customer demands.  A world-class lean operation strives for a global optimization strategy for multiple collaborating organizations, not a single firm.  World-class lean organizations simultaneously optimize all processes through lean approaches that maximizes reduction of total waste in services and operations, but does so  while simultaneously improving flexibility and customization. To achieve this goal, many existing methodologies and approaches for optimization of internal operations are being extended across the collaborative enterprise and even the entire value chain.

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