Purpose–The advent of recession at the beginning of twenty-first century forced many
organizations worldwide to reduce cost and to be more responsive to customer demands …

Purpose Assessing the outcome of lean transformation journey has been of interest to both
researchers and practitioners. Various qualitative and quantitative assessment …

Due to the highly dynamic and competitive environment, organizations are led to rethink
their processes and strategies. In the industrial field, Lean Manufacturing (LM) is widely …

Evidence suggests that lean methods and tools have helped manufacturing organisations to
improve their operations and processes. However, the real effect of these methods and tools …

Based on five lean principles, a systematic lean implementation methodology for
manufacturing organizations has been proposed. A simplified leanness evaluation metric …

The lean implementation initiatives can be categorised as roadmap, conceptual/
implementation framework, descriptive and assessment checklist initiatives. A literature …

Lean principles have long been recognised as a competitive advantage. Although there are
several measures for various aspects of lean production in the literature, there is no …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose an integrated performance measurement
framework to measure the effect of lean implementation throughout all functions of an …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to present supply chain metrics and to propose a
fuzzy-based performance evaluation method for lean supply chain. Design/methodology …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which lean management
practices are adopted by small-and medium-sized manufacturing organizations in India and …