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

International Logistics, Inc. is a conglomerate based in the United States that specializes in the manufacturing and distribution of high tech equipment. It has seen a marked trend in the competition’s exportation of goods around the world. As the manager of international logistics for this company, you have been asked by senior management to help identify a new export region.