Chapter 1 Basics in Lean Management -- Chapter 2 The cultural Change towards Lean Management -- Chapter 3 Kaizen: Continuous Improvements in small Steps -- Chapter 4 Waste and Value-added -- Chapter 5 Lean Management as part of the corporate Strategy -- Chapter 6 Leadership and Empowerment --...

Aufgrund des Komplexitätsanstiegs von inner- und überbetrieblichen Geschäftsprozessen, die sich unter anderem in der zunehmenden Individualisierung und der Verkürzung von Produktlebenszyklen äußern, befinden sich Unternehmen in einem Spannungsfeld zwischen Effizienz durch Standardisierung...

The relationship between supply chain/operations practice and operational/financial performance has been of interest to academics and practitioners for many years. We propose and develop a model exploring these connections, utilising data from a survey of 72 furniture manufacturers located...

A salient feature of globalization in recent decades is the emergence of "global supply chains" in which different countries specialize in different stages of a sequential production process. In Arnaud Costinot, Jonathan Vogel and Su Wang (2011), CVW hereafter, we have developed a simple theory...

Supply chain relationships and inter-organizational collaboration represent very active and well-established research domains in the literature. The importance of business process management and collaboration is highly recognized in terms of the productivity of the firms. To aid in the...

The study critically evaluates the effects of operations management on enhanced logistics control. The specific objectives were: To critically analyze the impact of process design on logistic control; to review the effect of production planning on logistic control, and to ascertain the effect of...

Purpose: Robotic process automation (RPA) refers to software robots (bots) that automate repetitive, rule-based tasks in a business process. In this study, the research questions regarding logistics applications are as follows: (1) What are suitable use cases for RPA in logistics? (2) Which...