Project Management Fundamentals

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Introduction
The article has focused on the effect of resilience, leanness and agility on the
operational performance. This has been basically observed in order to understand how these
strategies has contributed towards the operational performance. The literature review on
relation between Resilience, agility and lean has shown that, lean & agile are different. Agile
and resilience are the two strategies that helps the operations system to improve their supply
chain performance and establish a competitive position (Lotfi and Saghiri 2018). These
strategies are used as LAR paradigm and are used as different managerial approaches for
managing the supply chain process.
Research procedure
Research has been done using primary data collection method. The article has drawn
a structural model in order to understand the impact of these strategy in operational
performance. Hypothesis was measured using SEM model. For this, data has been collected
by conducting a survey from 151 automotive suppliers. These strategies are measured in
terms of cost, flexibility, time to recovery, quality and delivery and then it is tested using
SPSS 19 software and AMOS 19. The first hypothesis taken in the study is; Agility brings
resilience. Second hypothesis taken is; high level of resilience will decrease cost, improve
flexibility, improve delivery performance and decrease the time of recovery. Third hypothesis
is; high level of leanness will minimise cost, improve the flexibility, improve delivery and
worse the time to recovery performance. After testing the results, it has been found that, high
level if resilience will build a better cost control, delivery and better time to recovery. But,
resilience donot have any impact on the operational performance. The research hypothesis
described that, agility and resilience are independent factors are accepted from the study. This
means that, agility is not depends on resilience (Lotfi and Saghiri 2018). Scientist have
claimed that, resilience is an important strategy that can be used as a useful as managerial