Role of lean manufacturing and supply chain characteristics in accessing the manufacturing performance

Kumar, R.; Kumar, V.; Singh, S.

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Uncertain Supply Chain Management

ISSN 2291-6830 (Online) - ISSN 2291-6822 (Print) Quarterly Publication Volume 2 Issue 4 pp. 219-228 , 2014

Role of lean manufacturing and supply chain characteristics in accessing the manufacturing performance Pages 219-228 Download PDF

Authors: Rajender Kumar, Vikas Kumar, Sultan Singh

Keywords: Lean Thinking, Resources, Supply Chain Characteristics, Timely Delivery of goods, Wastages

Abstract: The improvement in manufacturing process is never ending effort, which is being derived by the culture of the organization. Therefore, an attitude of perfection, innovation and devotion is an essential part for the process improvement of an organization. Recently, innovations in the field of engineering help an entrepreneur sell the products through competitive environment. Moreover, the timely delivery of goods and cost effective product is the yardstick, which contributes to the performance index. These improvements resulted from continued performance enhancement efforts, helps in producing right quality in the right times which means providing stability to the organization performance. The role of lean thinking and supply chain characteristics is to create an effective marked on the organizational performance including bonding of all the participants where-so-ever possible. The purpose of this work is to examine the challenges, which integrate the Lean Principles to Supply Chain Characteristics for the real world situation to achieve better utilization of resources, timely delivery to the customer, and deletion of non-value added items including the control on all type of wastages as linked with supply chain systems.

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 Kumar, R., Kumar, V & Singh, S. (2014). Role of lean manufacturing and supply chain characteristics in accessing the manufacturing performance.Uncertain Supply Chain Management, 2(4), 219-228.

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