Abstract
Nowadays, the highly competitive market makes industrial companies search for new decisions to improve their competitive advantages. It can be lowering product cost, manufacturing and delivering faster than competitors or being flexible when producing different quantities of different products for different customers. Most popular instruments that help companies to reach previously mentioned competitive advantages are implementing Lean Manufacturing strategies or ERP systems into their production systems. The way of using these systems might become the main indicator of companies’ success in the future. This research aims to create a guideline for integrating ERP system into Lean Manufacturing system. It focuses on the manufacturing companies that are already using such a system and can share their good and bad experiences. To reach this aim, the scientific literature is being analyzed by retrieving the CSFs for such an integration process. Using these CSFs, the relation between them and the positive outcomes of the integration process is established and tested using an online survey. The results of the survey are processed using empirical methods. Moreover, the research methodology for evaluating the ERP system integration into Lean Manufacturing level is established and tested in three case analyses.
Highlights
Every company in the industrial sector faces similar difficulties when competing with others
The main object of this research is to fulfil the need for fundamental guidelines that could lead companies to successful ERP system integration into Lean Manufacturing for reaching competitive advantage not concerning about complexity of the system or price of a mistake
This research submits this objective by suggesting the model of ERP system integration into Lean Manufacturing
Summary
Every company in the industrial sector faces similar difficulties when competing with others It is meeting delivery times, lowering price and meeting required quality. Those difficulties relate to companies’ internal indicators and features of the production system. It can be production costs, production throughput, quality system effectiveness, amount of inventory, amount if WIP, etc. CSFs of Lean Manufacturing system implementation process is described in various sources of literature. The most important CSFs are related to organizational culture and quality of companies’ management system. It is because the implementation of Lean Manufacturing is the process of change
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