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White Paper Description
Outstanding strategic, operational, financial, and market position gains have been achieved by manufacturing industry companies embedding the lean philosophy, principals, practices, tools, and methods of the Toyota Production System (TPS) into their integrated enterprise IT systems. Gains ranging from factors of three or more in sales per employee, profitability, free cash flow, and market position, are among other performance indicators, have been acknowledged in companies with revenues from tens of millions to billions of dollars. Companies such as Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems, Goodrich, Rockwell-Collins, Delphi, Honeywell, and LSI among others have achieved and institutionalized these results by extending lean across the total value dtream and by integrating lean and IT through one or more of the components of the SAP Business Suite solutions. This white paper provides background on the status of lean implementations; the empirical, academic, and operational status of lean processes; and the specific contribution of SAP business solutions to the institutionalization of lean processes.
Related Topics: Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Human Resources, Enterprise Asset Management
Related Industries: Manufacturing, Management of Companies and Enterprises
Source: Corning Data Services Inc
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