Supply chain management has become one of the most popular approaches to enhance the global competitiveness of business corporations today. Firms must have clear strategic thinking in order to effectively organize such complicated activities, resources, communications, and processes. An emerging body of literature offers a framework that identifies three kinds of supply chain strategies: lean s...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand how effective Turkish small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) use enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in module aspect and to assess the adherence to lean manufacturing requirements. Obtaining each efficiency result separately is not adequate to make an inference about relationship between ERP and lean practices. Hence, a relational m...

The Lean philosophy is increasingly being implemented, both in industry and the public sector. Examples of this include Produktionslyftet (The Production Leap) and Verksamhetslyftet (an educational project helping hospitals and municipalities in their work to implement lean principles in their organizations), two larger programmes that have been researched by academia. For more information abou...

Lean construction and Building Information Modeling are quite different initiatives, but both are having profound impacts on the construction industry. A rigorous analysis of the myriad specific interactions between them indicates that a synergy exists which, if properly understood in theoretical terms, can be exploited to improve construction processes beyond the degree to which it might be im...

This paper deals with the development of a new approach for supporting the improvement of information management and the overall information systems infrastructure. In particular, the paper discusses the application of lean thinking to information management; where information management can be considered to involve adding value to information by virtue of how it is organised, visualised and re...

In today's world of global markets and stiff competition in every product, it becomes imperative for companies to explore ways to improve their productivity in terms of implementing flexible and standardized technology, and adopting proven management principles. Lean production is one of the initiatives that many major businesses all around the world have been trying to adopt to remain competit...

Engineering change (EC) processes often involve many functions and deal with dependencies inside and between products, organizations and production facilities. Therefore, it is complicated and sensitive to disturbances. Lean Product Development is a promising approach for reorganizing product development according to certain principles. The objective of this study was to find possibilities to i...

Stakeholder management has an important role in the success of project because strategies, plans, methods, and processes for stakeholders greatly determine sustainable construction implementation. Lean is one principles implementing by maximizing value minimizing waste to increase productivity. This study aims analyze stakeholder engagement assessment matrix lean construction, drivers barriers ...

The Toyota Production System (TPS) has been widely studied and copied by variouscompanies to improve several of their processes. However, many of them have not beensuccessful due to the fact that only the tools and tactics have been focused and the coreunderlying principles have been overlooked. There are examples of a few companies whichhave achieved cost savings and operationa...