Modeling Lean, Agile, and Leagile Supply Chain Strategies
Many companies are using lean management and agility strategies to reduce costs, improve customer service and advance their competitive position. Lean thinking emphasizes the elimination of waste while agility stresses flexible, timely action in response to rapidly changing demand. While lean and agile supply chain strategies are often viewed as opposites, this paper supports the view that they do not necessarily compete and in fact can be employed simultaneously through a so-called "leagile" approach. Lean, agile and leagile strategies are illustrated by modeling their respective applications at a tier-1 supplier to the heating, ventilating and air-conditioning industry. Simulation analyses indicate that the lean system improves customer service performance while the leagile system results in lower enterprise-wide inventory levels under modeled circumstances. Analyses of the model output with regard to enterprise-wide costs and the sensitivity of the strategies to varying cost conditions suggests that tradeoffs exist among the three systems.
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Authors:
- Goldsby, Thomas J
- Griffis, Stanley E
- Roath, Anthony S
- Publication Date: 2006-1
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 57-80
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Serial:
- Journal of Business Logistics
- Volume: 27
- Issue Number: 1
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers Limited
- ISSN: 0197-6729
- EISSN: 2158-1592
- Serial URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2158-1592
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Business practices; Competition; Costs; Customer service; Heating, cooling and ventilation equipment; Inventory; Sensitivity analysis; Simulation; Strategic planning; Supply; Supply chain management
- Uncontrolled Terms: Agile production; Lean production
- Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Finance; Freight Transportation; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01041187
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jan 30 2007 1:27PM