Lean Supply Chain Management Essentials

Supply Chain Management / Logistics 

Presenting an alternate approach to supply chain management, Lean Supply Chain

Management Essentials: A Framework for Materials Managers explains why the traditional

materials planning environment, typically embodied by an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

system, is an ineffective support system for a company that wants to adopt Lean practices.

It begins by dening supply chain management basics, including roles, objectives, and

responsibilities from a traditional framework. Next, it describes Lean basics and explores the

conicts between Lean and the traditional framework. ...