Justification of Lean manufacturing for sustainable competitive advantage: Analytic hierarchy process approach

摘要

Market requirements are changing very fast. To compete under such business environment, organizations are trying to adopt emerging advanced manufacturing practices to reduce different kind of wastage in their operations. Lean manufacturing system has emerged as an important approach to enhance value addition in production systems. However, it has been observed that many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) particularly in developing countries are still reluctant in implementing lean manufacturing practices. By using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) approach, study has tried to justify the implementation of a lean manufacturing system for Indian small manufacturing organizations.