... not only to assess the leanness level of the systems which is very critical to lean practitioners but also can be used to track lean implementation progress. In addition, the presented analysis outlined various demand management as well as lean implementation policies that can improve the system leanness...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Demand management Order processing Schedule based ordering The order processing plus waiting due‐date rule is as follows: (see equation 5) Feng‐Chang (1996) mentioned that the performance of a due‐date assignment rule is highly dependent...