Technology plays a key role in enabling lean and agile supply chain operations. For example connecting to suppliers in real-time facilitates re-supplying parts and materials for a just-in-time production environment. But choosing the wrong technology can create waste in terms of the time effort and money spent evaluating selecting implementing and using it. Furthermore lean has been traditionally thought of as a pen and pencil technique as they were mostly confined to a single facility. As a consequence while there are many books written on lean manufacturing lean office and to a lesser degree lean global supply chain most if not all barely discuss the role and impact of technology in process improvement and there aren’t many books that combine the topics of a lean and agile supply chain and technology (smart and otherwise) in this way. This book makes the case that technology is a key enabler of a lean supply chain and is unique in that it links lean and agile thinking with available and affordable technologies to get the most out of improved processes. Essentially this book details various supply chain and logistics management areas where lean and agile thinking in combination with existing and emerging technologies such as the Internet e-commerce Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems Robotics Io T AI and Data Analytics can take an organization to the next level through increased speed accuracy integration and collaboration among all parties in the supply chain. |The Lean Smart Digital Supply Chain How to Enable a Lean and Agile Global Supply Chain with the Help of Technology | Business Improvement
