Lean, Green, and Agile Supply Chain Practices

Abstract

In response to increased competition in recent years, businesses have been pushed to adopt new procedures, such as establishing updated information and communication systems and creating more streamlined production processes. The potential for supply chains to facilitate the introduction of innovative management practices is seen as crucial to the sector's future success. Three ideas, “lean,” “green,” and “agile,” deserve serious consideration because of their potential to significantly improve supply chain efficiency. However, combining agile and lean principles to lessen environmental consequences is a relatively new issue that is not well-defined in terms of structure. Through a comprehensive analysis of the literature on lean, green, and agile paradigms, this chapter hopes to identify potential future lines of inquiry and identify knowledge gaps. This chapter is an effort to synthesize recent findings on the interconnectedness of lean, green, and agile practices in supply chain management.

Integrated DEMATEL-ML approach for implementing lean supply chain in manufacturing sector

“…Previous studies have contributed to LSCM literature reviews (Jasti and Kodali, 2015;Ugochukwu et al, 2012), lean practices, lean barriers, lean enablers, and lean six sigma critical success factors (Ali et al, 2020;Berger et al, 2018;Borges et al, 2019;Khorasani et al, 2020;Raval et al, 2021;Sharma et al, 2021). Recent studies have analyzed LSCM performance (Garcia-Buendia et al, 2022), lean, green, and agile practices in supply chains (Saeed and Shoukat, 2023), lean applications to improve supply chains performance through Industry 4.0 principles (Rana and Jani, 2023) and lean thinking in medical commodities supply chain (Kessy et al, 2024). According to (Oliveira-Dias et al, 2022), the use of digital technologies and IT tools are important for monitoring manufacturing processes, optimizing the flow of resources during production, and identifying problems or causes of downtime in real time.…”

“…Recent studies have analyzed LSCM performance (Garcia-Buendia et al. , 2022), lean, green, and agile practices in supply chains (Saeed and Shoukat, 2023), lean applications to improve supply chains performance through Industry 4.0 principles (Rana and Jani, 2023) and lean thinking in medical commodities supply chain (Kessy et al. , 2024).…”