"The success of a Lean manufacturing program depends far more on organization-wide leverage of Lean manufacturing tools than it does on the tools themselves. To this the organization must add the human relations aspects that earn buy-in and engagement by all members of the workforce, to the...

This book "examines Lean opportunities from the viewpoint of retail strategy, merchandise management, and store and distribution operations, and provides a holistic, systematic approach for identifying and eliminating non-value-added activities. The Lean techniques presented can be applied to...