Year: 2015
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Lean is a prominent philosophy and a practice that assumes the expenditure of all types of resources for any purpose other than the creation of value for the end customer to be wasteful, and therefore a target for exclusion. This philosophy and the way of thinking expressed by a set of principles, supplemented by different tools and techniques helps for waste elimination, operational performance improvement, inventory reduction, and optimum quality level to the end customers. It is one of the paramount and wide-ranging concepts that contribute companies all over the world to gain competitive advantage and prosper in the world market. The purpose of the paper is to disclose the manifestation of multidimensional Lean concept in companies operating in Lithuania.
Authors: Ramunė Čiarnienė, Milita Vienažindienė
Institution: Kaunas University of Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Management Information Systems
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2198998675