Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Supporting small businesses in their transition to lean production

Supporting small businesses in their transition to lean production Discusses the importance of achieving alignment between buyers and sellers, with specific emphasis on efforts by buyers to improve the performance of their suppliers. Describes common barriers and presents strategies and methods that were successful in educating and developing suppliers’ capabilities in lean production across multiple tiers. Presents supporting activities that can help facilitate implementation and ensure that lean production does not become another “flavour of the month”. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Supply Chain Management An International Journal Emerald Publishing

Supporting small businesses in their transition to lean production

Download PDF
5 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/emerald-publishing/supporting-small-businesses-in-their-transition-to-lean-production-4PhqkoiYtV

References (24)

Publisher
Emerald Publishing
Copyright
Copyright © 2000 MCB UP Ltd. All rights reserved.
ISSN
1359-8546
DOI
10.1108/13598540010319975
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Discusses the importance of achieving alignment between buyers and sellers, with specific emphasis on efforts by buyers to improve the performance of their suppliers. Describes common barriers and presents strategies and methods that were successful in educating and developing suppliers’ capabilities in lean production across multiple tiers. Presents supporting activities that can help facilitate implementation and ensure that lean production does not become another “flavour of the month”.

Journal

Supply Chain Management An International Journal – Emerald Publishing

Published: May 1, 2000

Keywords: Supply chain; Supplier relations; Lean production; Kaizen; Small firms; Trust

There are no references for this article.