The current situation in the world economics requires a rethinking of business strategies. The worldwide crisis in the financial segment increases the pressure on every company. All companies have to lean their operational processes and their high risk activities to ensure customer satisfaction....

For last 15 years, Six Sigma that many leader companies have put into practice, help companies to increase their profit and develop by making their process more effective. Six Sigma focuses on quality more than speed. Lean Management removes weakness of Six Sigma on speeding process. In this...

This paper studies the curious odyssey of "Lean Management"... Under this label, managerial ideas and practices have undergone, first a decisive step towards process thinking, and then a striking return to planning and variance control habits. The study of this historical shift can give us clues...

The aim of this paper is the analysis of contemporary concepts used in production management in relation to the paradigms which accompanied their appearance and development. The first chapter contains a definition of the term 'paradigm', discusses the importance of the paradigms for the...

The aim of the paper is to present the essence and benefits of the application of the Lean Management concept, both from the theoretical and empirical point of view (case study). The paper consists of two parts. In the first theoretical part there has been presented the concept of Lean...

Der Beitrag liefert einen internationalen Vergleich zum Management der Hersteller-Zuliefer-Beziehungen in der Automobilindustrie in Japan, Europa und den USA und analysiert Komponentenstrategien, insbesondere auch für den bisher vernachlässigten Bereich der internen Zulieferer.

"Formen der Dezentralisierung wie Gruppenarbeit und Center-Konzepte prägen die Diskussion in der Industrie- und Organisationssoziologie seit Anfang der 1990er Jahre bis heute. Bisher fehlt aber eine detaillierte Auseinandersetzung mit der Einführungsdynamik und den Bedingungen der...

One of the challenges faced by businesses today is the combined pressure to reduce price and to provide an increased a variety of options at lower volumes. This paper will present what we call 5S method as part of the Lean philosophy. It will explain how to introduce this concept and how can it...

In this work I have approached aspects related to analysing the possibility of implementing the Lean Management method in public services, taking into account the particularities of these services. Throughout my paper I have presented the Lean Management principles from the perspective of...

All aspects of Lean Management presented in this paper have attempted to show the size of an approach of the industrial performance in European companies. The myth created by the results in Japanese car companies Toyota has attracted the interest of many authors to this management system. In...