Due to the commitment to Lean production, most firms have the natural tendency to gear towards green practices (Düesa, et al., 2013). Synergies arise from the different characteristics of lean and green practices on the supply chain attributes of capacity surplus, integration level, inventory level, production lead time and transportation time (Carvalho and Cruz-Machado, 2009).
Common elements for lean practice and sustainable supply chain was reviewed in many articles by different authors.
• Waste elimination
Biggest benefit in lean practises is that it identifies non value-adding activities in manufacturing process which consume valuable resources. It helps to preserving the quality of product-life and the natural resources (Srivastava, 2007) • Just in Time (JIT)
JIT ensures that the customer maintains an acceptable fill rate and a low inventory level (Palevich, 2014). Beamon (2003) considers that just-in-time (JIT) requiring comparatively small transportation batch sizes which required to pull system. However, with contrast to Beamon …show more content…
• Culture
People is a key element of susses in any organisation. In Lean, people driven activities such as kaizen and continuous improvement activities are key to eliminate in reducing waste from the process and product.
Team members must be motivated, flexible and continuously seeking to improvement areas to identify the gaps which creates waste. However, “one of big challenges in kaizen and continuous improvement activities is how to effectively motivate other employee” says Ketsarapong, et al., (2012). However article from Perera (2011) and reseach results Silva, et al., (2012) elabarate culturel change should drive from top management as “management that will drive the change in any organisation and not the workers” when it comes to sir lanka apparel indasty.
• Supplier collaboration and
Common elements for lean practice and sustainable supply chain was reviewed in many articles by different authors.
• Waste elimination
Biggest benefit in lean practises is that it identifies non value-adding activities in manufacturing process which consume valuable resources. It helps to preserving the quality of product-life and the natural resources (Srivastava, 2007) • Just in Time (JIT)
JIT ensures that the customer maintains an acceptable fill rate and a low inventory level (Palevich, 2014). Beamon (2003) considers that just-in-time (JIT) requiring comparatively small transportation batch sizes which required to pull system. However, with contrast to Beamon …show more content…
• Culture
People is a key element of susses in any organisation. In Lean, people driven activities such as kaizen and continuous improvement activities are key to eliminate in reducing waste from the process and product.
Team members must be motivated, flexible and continuously seeking to improvement areas to identify the gaps which creates waste. However, “one of big challenges in kaizen and continuous improvement activities is how to effectively motivate other employee” says Ketsarapong, et al., (2012). However article from Perera (2011) and reseach results Silva, et al., (2012) elabarate culturel change should drive from top management as “management that will drive the change in any organisation and not the workers” when it comes to sir lanka apparel indasty.
• Supplier collaboration and