why lean Lean Manufacturing is not especially new. It is derived from the Toyota Production System or Just in Time Production‚ Henry Ford and other predecessors. The lineage of Lean manufacturing and Just In Time (JIT) Production goes back to Eli Whitney and the concept of interchangeable part in the 1850’s. It was finally when Taichii Ohno and Shigeo Shingo introduced Toyota Production System which in true sense talked about lean manufacturing. Todd(2000) defines lean production as “initiative
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1.0 Introduction Lean manufacturing is the systematic elimination of waste from all aspects of an organization’s operations‚ where waste is viewed as any use or loss of resources that does not lead directly to creating the product or service a customer wants when they want it. In many industrial processes‚ such non-value added activity can comprise more than 90 percent of a factory’s total activity Lean manufacturing or lean production are reasonably new terms that can be traced to Jim Womack‚ Daniel
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Contents Introduction: Amazon is an American multinational electronic commerce company with headquarters in Seattle‚ Washington‚ It is the biggest online retailer in world‚ although many consider that it is more a leading software developer or "information systems’ company with a little pick‚ pack and ship service" (Hof‚ 2003). This world-class retailer‚ which began doing business as an online bookseller in the mid 90s‚ has changed with the time and currently it offers its customers a
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Can Amazon book a spot in South Korea? 1. Introduction of Amazon.com‚ Inc. With the technological development the last decades and the rise of computers and Internet‚ new business concepts have emerged‚ including electronic business (e-Business) and electronic commerce (E-commerce). Being a first mover and pioneer in the fast growing E-commerce sector‚ the American-based company Amazon.com‚ Inc. revolutionized the entire industry‚ which lead to major “creative destruction” (Schumpeter‚ 1942). Founded
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The perceived impact of JIT implementation on operations performance Evidence from Chinese firms Zhi-Xiang Chen Sun Yat-Sen University‚ Guangzhou‚ China‚ and Perceived impact of JIT implementation 213 Kim Hua Tan Nottingham University Business School‚ Nottingham‚ UK Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the perceived impact of just-in-time ( JIT) implementation on operations performance‚ identify the relationship between elements of JIT (integrated and individual)
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THE LEAN HR/LEAN OD PARADIGM Definitions: Lean HR‚ Lean OD is about driving waste and duplication out of all HR and OD practices‚ processes and procedures – It is not a set of tools; it’s a paradigm rather then one single theory. A workplace culture; defined simplistically as how we do it around here and it will ultimately determine how far an organisation can go. A workplace culture can be formed in one of two ways. One is by piecemeal that is‚ bit by bit and usually in response to
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Just-In-Time Inventory Management Strategy & Lean Manufacturing Overview of Just-in-Time Inventory Management Just-in-time is a movement and idea that has gained wide acceptance in the business community over the past decade. As companies became more and more competitive and the pressures from Japans continuous improvement culture‚ other firms were forced to find innovative ways to cut costs and compete. The idea behind JIT‚ or lean manufacturing‚ is to have the supplies a firm needs at the
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Lean implementation The lean implementation described in the book “Journey to lean”‚ written by Drew‚ McCallum Roggenhoffer describes lean‚ the set of principles‚ practices‚ tools and techniques to address the root causes of the operational under performance. Lean is a systematic approach of eliminating the sources of loss from entire value stream in order to gap between actual performance and the requirement of stakeholders. They authors describes the three kinds of losses as variability‚ inflexibility
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innovations in manufacturing systems and management‚ one of which is the philosophy of “Just in Time”. Just-in-time (JIT) refers to a collection of practices that is designed to eliminate waste and achieve manufacturing excellence. These organizational practices encompass the entire logistics flow of materials from purchasing through production and distribution. The elements of JIT may include shared product design with suppliers and customers‚ movement toward single sourcing‚ proximate suppliers
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Dell – Supply Chain Management Case Study 1 Case Contents 1. Introduction......................................................................................................2 2. Dell – Company Overview ...............................................................................2 3. Dell Products and Services .............................................................................3 4. Dell – Key Facts ................................................................................
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