MGT322 Identify and apply Logistics and Supply Chain Management concepts/tools to suggest logistics performance
Critical Thinking
The purpose of this assignment is to identify and apply Logistics and Supply Chain Management concepts/tools to suggest logistics performance priorities.
Search Title: THE BENEFITS OF LEAN MANUFACTURING what lean thinking offers the process Industries
Authors Name: Melton,T
Source: In 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering, Chemical Engineering Research and Design June 2005 83(6):662-673
Read out the research paper carefully and based on your understanding you should answer the following questions.
Questions:
- Why Manufacturing Companies focuses on Lean Thinking?
- What do understand by the term overproduction? Why it consider as the biggest waste of all?
- Assess the reasons for using lean thinking. What are the benefits from Suppliers to end users?
- References
The Answer must follow the outline points below:
- Each answer should be 400 to 500 range of word counts.
- Lean Thinking Concept
- Their Main functions
- Reasons with suitable Examples
- Reference
- References are in APA style
Note: You can Support your answer by reading chapter 7 of your book.
You can use secondary source available on internet
The book referenced in the note section if you want to use it is: Logistics Management & Strategy Competing Trough the Supply Chain Fourth Edition by Alan Harrison & Remko van Hoek.
