As listed in the APICS definition, “Agility merges the four distinctive competencies of cost, quality, dependability and
flexibility.” And all four are required for true success as an agile and responsive manufacturer
Plex.Com white paper on Agile and MES
Lean and Agile Value Chain Management: A Guide to the Next Level of Improvement (Google eBook)
Ehap H. Sabri, Salim N. Shaikh
J. Ross Publishing, 2010 - Business & Economics - 454 pages
One of the biggest challenges for companies in today's competitive environment is to get products to customers when and where they need it, exactly the way they want it, with a competitive price and in a cost effective manner. Managing the value chain is becoming more complicated because of globalization, outsourcing, the need for shorter time to market, and the requirement for more responsiveness and flexibility due to customer changes. Although the benefits of applying lean concepts or improving the flexibility of a value chain are clear and desperately needed in today's competitive environment, none of the current literature provides guidance on how to do this. Lean & Agile Value Chain Management fills that gap by providing a breakthrough start-to-finish roadmap for organizations to implement a lean and agile value chain transformation program successfully. It brings together the field's latest advances and offers practical, proven tactics and detailed guidance into every aspect of value chain process redesign, including mapping the existing process, intelligently leveraging new technologies, building a strategy for strengthening the relationship with suppliers and customers, identifying comprehensive related metrics, and much more.
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