A Study of Lean Management and LeadTime

A STUDY OF LEAN
MANAGEMENT AND
LEADTIME
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
1.Lean management concepts......................................................................................................3
2. Organisational overview..........................................................................................................6
3. Suggestion of lean concept for the organisation......................................................................6
4. Lead time calculation...............................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Lean management is the efficient process of maintaining the organisation which cooperates
the continuous improvement, it is a long term process for working systematically for achieving
the little incremental modifications within the processes in order to improvise the efficiency and
productivity (Villalba-Diez and Zheng, 2020). Main aspect of lean management is to foster the
values to the consumer by utilising the resources. lead time define as the total amount of time
which takes from task initiation to its ending. Businesses view the lead time during production,
supply chain management, it is important for the businesses to predict the sales and making their
operations efficient to enhance the customer satisfaction. Tesco a British multinational groceries
and general merchandise, headquarter is present in Welwyn garden city, England UK. Following
report will discuss the concepts of lean management which mainly highlights the Kaizen, lean
six sigma and lean start up management concept along with its benefits. It further discusses the
suggestion of one concept to organisation, it also highlight the lead time calculation for the case
which is given for the report.
MAIN BODY
1.Lean management concepts
Lean management aims to improvise the business operations to make it efficient and
overall enhance the functionality of business. It is the core value of company’s business because
operational management is directly span with worker experience. Following are the concept of
lean management.
Kaizen:
Kaizen is the process of constructing the continuous development which is based on the
solution that little, ongoing positive commute can lead to better improvements. Generally, it is
done on the basis of the cooperation and commitment in harmony with the processes that could
utilizes the top down changes for accomplishing the transformation (Rivera and et.al 2021).
There is some aspect of the kaizen model which are teamwork, discipline, enhanced morale,
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