... integration mechanisms can facilitate the optimization and improvement of supply chain (SC) performance in MCs. Gomes (2015) extensively explored the supply chain improvement (SCI) topic, developing the categories of continuous improvement (lean production, quality management, general methods...

...Beatriz Minguela-Rata; Juan Manuel Maqueira; Araceli Rojo; José Moyano-Fuentes Purpose This study aims to examine the full mediating role of supply chain flexibility (SCF) between lean production (LP) and business performance (BP) found in the previous literature. This effect negates the direct LP...

...-use rights only Supply-chain management Automotive industry Lean production Leanness assessment Graph-theoretic approach Luciano Costa Santos can be contacted at: luciano@ct.ufpb.br Lean implementation is commonly regarded as a continuous improvement process that evolves...

... that the automotive SC is comprised of organisations that predominantly adopt Lean production methods, and that in SCs comprised of both Lean and Agile organisations, the firms closer to the customer will adopt more flexible (Agile) practices, while those that operate upstream will adopt more efficient (Lean...

... firms in Brazil, construct validation procedures and testing the two hypotheses using ordinary least square regression. The results are presented in Section 4 and discussions in Section 5. Finally, Section 6 includes the conclusions and final remarks. Supply chain management Lean production...

... 27 07 2016 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Lucila M.S. Campos can be contacted at: lucila.campos@ufsc.br Brazil Lean production Green supply chains SCM practices Domestic appliance industry...

...-operation Lean production Automotive industry The article complements the conventional Lean Supply wisdom on the organization of physical and information flows (Mosquera et al., 2006 ; Wee and Wu, 2009 ; Parveen and Rao, 2009), stressing the need to manage working capital (WC...

... and process improvement in a health care supply chain. This article also discusses the concept of lean production, and the authors claim that many health care organizations in fact report using lean concepts. In their study they use lean principles in an investigation of front‐office customer‐processing...

.... Supply chain management Lean production Integration © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 According to Lindberg et al. (1998) , IMSS is an international research network consisting of 20 countries and 600 companies in the world, including developed countries, i.e. the US...

..., 2009). Concurrent engineering increases the contractors' understanding of customers' needs and improves teamwork and joint problem‐solving, resulting in significant time savings (Wright, 2000 ; Humphreys et al., 2003 ; Song et al., 2009). Lean production Construction industry...

... and application of theory within a lean implementation, trailed and validated in an industrial setting. Competence theory has previously been described as “lack‐lustre” due to the abstract nature of the ideas. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Competences Aerospace industry Lean production...

... Lean production Food industry Case studies The pig sector is a 4.7 billion euro industry in Spain accounting for 11.7 per cent of total agricultural and 33 per cent of livestock revenue (MARM, 2008)). After Germany, Spain is the second largest producer of pigs in the 25 European Union...

... and comprehensive ideas for those industries planning to implement lean production. Design/methodology/approach The methodology used is the case based approach (CBA), which described lean supply chain (LSC) through value stream mapping (VSM) using a case study from the Ford Motor Company in Chung Li, Taiwan...

... Supply chain management Lean production Malaysia The evidence also shows that companies with low linkages developed a much simpler form of HRM practice. This is probably due to the fact that their main customers are overseas and thus less able to monitor their management system closely...

... suggested by Jones and Womack (2002) . Figure 1 gives an example of a map from one of the chains studied. David H Taylor can be contacted at: taylordh@cardiff.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Value chain Lean production Supply chain management Food industry Meat United...

... investments. The early work of Porter (1991), Porter and Van der Linde (1995) , and Hart (1995) challenged this accepted view and offered that firm profitability and pollution prevention are not mutually exclusive goals. Supplier relations Lean production Environmental management Of growing...

... desirable overall system performance in the long run. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Supply chain Agile production Lean production Product attributes Innovative products can be new products developed by organizations to capture new markets and are designed to be acceptable to changing customers...

... that buyers must construct terms and conditions that support the implementation of lean production by suppliers in order to achieve congruency with strategic business goals. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Internet Contracts Lean production Purchasing Online reverse auctions have become a popular...

... the adoption of modern supply chain management methods and the implementation of lean production that are needed by both buyers and suppliers in order to truly eliminate waste and reduce total costs. Figure 1 shows a typical online auction process, from project start to bid day. The first four steps...

... 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”. The small machined parts supply network is part of an aerospace economic cluster...