Critical success practices (CSP) toward implementing lean production among international companies in Malaysia

Abstract

With emerging globalization and adverting huge competition among the companies, all participants are looking towards improving their core competency, and follow a way to make a better profit margin for them, through the elimination of waste and increase in their productivity which can be achieve through a concept of lean production and especially just-in-time (JIT) practices. In Malaysia, it is still a new concept and many local companies are not as good as their international counterpart, which are active in Malaysia. As a result, in this paper we are going to examine critical success practice (CSP) for implementing lean production among international firms, which are active in Malaysia and through a survey on leaders in lean production in Malaysia extract a general pattern for other Malaysian companies for improving their lean practices. Key words: Lean production, just-in-time (JIT), critical success practice (CSP), information requirement determination, industries, Malaysia.