Lean manufacturing beyond it’s boundaries – A journey towards lean enterprise
Lean manufacturing is explained as a great way of reducing wastes and improving the efficiencies in an organization. But as it sounds lean manufacturing is more focused towards the organization and improving its functionalities. But in the real world your customers, suppliers and also other parties who has some sort of connection with your organization can do much more than you think in improving your efficiencies.
Some researches have shown that around $250 to $400 Billion are wasted annually in North American industries alone due to the inefficiencies in supply chain. They estimate this amount would be as big as $1 trillion worldwide. (Source : Creating the Lean Enterprise By David Baum). So to exploit the real potential of your organization you must go beyond the boundaries of your premises.
Lean manufacturing concepts are now extending towards lean enterprise concepts. In a lean enterprise full supply chain is integrated. Lean manufacturing principles are used to achieve waste elimination objectives. Seamless integration of the activities along the supply chain will save huge amounts of money, time and effort.
Some researches have shown that around $250 to $400 Billion are wasted annually in North American industries alone due to the inefficiencies in supply chain. They estimate this amount would be as big as $1 trillion worldwide. (Source : Creating the Lean Enterprise By David Baum). So to exploit the real potential of your organization you must go beyond the boundaries of your premises.
Lean manufacturing concepts are now extending towards lean enterprise concepts. In a lean enterprise full supply chain is integrated. Lean manufacturing principles are used to achieve waste elimination objectives. Seamless integration of the activities along the supply chain will save huge amounts of money, time and effort.
1 comments:
The Lean Enterprise concept is hard to get across to organizations. They only want to look at the manufacturing end of things. You are correct in your view in this change. I was with a lagre auto manufacturer until removed like the majority of white collar workers. I was in supplier quality and to try to get the whole system to imploment a Lean Enterprise concept was almost impossible.
I am in the process of developing my own consulting firm to help small to medium size manufacturing companies to address problems such as Lean concepts so they can stay in business.
Jack
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