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by ehsan on February 11, 2008

Lean Manufacturing and Lean SCM are both trying to reduce the amount of waste and the lead time. However they are not the same in terms of tools, approach and maturity requirements they are pursuing. My quick comments are:
1) Lean Supply Chain can't start unless you have a good level of lean maturity in your operations. In other words, you have to start with lean manufacturing.
2) Tools and concepts such as SMED, SPC and quality circles can not be applied easily to a supply chain due to the fact that scope now is different companies with different cultures.
3) Usually for the supply chain side, Six Sigma combined with lean philosophy is applied.
4) In supply chain collaboration's role is more important: the way company works with the suppliers and the partners to reduce the waste.
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