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Integrating the lean and agile manufacturing paradigms in the total supply chain
J. Ben Naylor , Mohamed M Naim, Danny Berry
Abstract
As the lean thinking and agile manufacturing paradigms have been developed there has been a tendency to view them in a progression and in isolation. This article shows that this is too simplistic a view. The use of either paradigm has to bined with a total supply chain strategy particularly considering market knowledge and positioning of the decoupling point as agile manufacturing is best suited to satisfying a fluctuating demand and lean manufacturing requires a level schedule. This view is supported by consideration of a PC supply chain case study. ( 1999 Elsevier Science rights reserved.)
Keywords: Agile manufacturing; Lean thinking; Supply chain management; Customer satisfaction; pression
1. Introduction
Two current popular paradigms are lean thinking and agile manufacturing. As new paradigms are developed and promoted there is a tendency to view them in a progression and in isolation. Thus there is a view that "first there was a need to adopt the lean manufacturing paradigm and now manu-facturers should strive to e agile. This article proposes that this is too simplistic a view and that the lean and agile paradigms, though distinctly different, can be and have bined within essfully designed and operated to