Implementation Of Lean Philosophy Research Articles

Effects of Lean Tools in Achieving Lean Warehousing

Abstract The acceptance of lean philosophy in the company means not only respecting the lean principles in the manufacturing but in all the processes that are performed inside the company. All processes in the company that are a potential places for making losses and waste and thus require the application of lean principles. Among others, warehouse and warehouse operations, as a centre of costs and waste, must be supported through the implementation of lean philosophy in the company by respecting lean principles. The implementation of lean principles in the warehouse is a certain step of improvement warehouse process and performance, but also of the whole company. In that sense, the paper presents the analysis of the warehousing process and its performances before and after implementation of the lean tools in a selected Serbian company as a practical example. In addition, research shows which parts of warehousing need to be improved, in analysed company, as well as correlation between the individual parts of warehousing, according to employees' opinion from next sectors: purchasing, production and logistics.

GESTÃO DE ESTOQUE E LEAN MANUFACTURING: ESTUDO DE CASO EM UMA EMPRESA METALÚRGICA

Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo analisar o impacto da filosofia lean aplicada à gestão de estoque como diferencial de desempenho e vantagem competitiva em uma empresa metalúrgica. Trata-se de um estudo de caso descritivo, ex-post facto e de corte temporal seccional. Este estudo demonstra que após a implementação da filosofia lean, a empresa obteve maior interatividade na administração da informação entre os elementos internos e externos, o que permitiu a redução dos custos de produção, melhorias na qualidade dos produtos e eliminação dos grandes estoques de segurança sem comprometimento do nível de serviço oferecido ao cliente.

LEAN MANUFACTURING IMPLEMENTATION AND PROGRESS MEASUREMENT

Applying Lean manufacturing philosophy is one of the most important concepts that help enterprises to gain competitive advantage in the world market. Lean manufacturing or lean production is a production practice, which regards the use of resources for any work other than the creation of value for the end customer, as waste. Although a lot of companies started implementing Lean concept, and the number of Lean tools, techniques and technologies available to improve operational performance are growing rapidly, only ten percent or less of the companies achieved significant results. The purpose of the paper is creating a model illustrating successful Lean implementation based on prior analysis of Lean implementation progress measurement and the main barriers identification. Implementation of Lean philosophy and principles can be described as a set of actions and processes starting with planning the change and, defining the success factors, and finishing with the implementation and measurement of the progress. For each of the improvement dimensions, several groups of indicators with a set of metrics can show and measure the company’s progress: elimination of waste; continuous improvement; continuous flow and pull-driven systems; multifunctional teams; and information systems. Authors of this paper present the original model of the Lean implementation process, which includes success factors, barriers and progress measurement metrics. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.em.18.2.4732