In order to be more efficient, firms have adopted strategies such as outsourcing, global partnerships and lean practices. Although tremendous abilities improve the efficiencies but simultaneously they make vulnerable market uncertainties, dependencies disruptions. Moreover, natural calamities manmade crises also put negative impact on strategic, operational tactical performance of supply chains. These factors triggered interest academia industry consider risk issues prime concerns. To...

Purpose Global competition has intensified pressure on small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to implement lean. Recently, the debate converged role of lean implementation barriers (LIBs). The purpose this paper is contribute by exploring LIBs in SMEs through three case studies. Design/methodology/approach A study approach was employed followed interpretive structural modelling (ISM) model interrelationship among LIBs. Findings This reveals that lack management commitment, leadership...

Purpose Although lean thinking is deemed to be a gold standard of modern production management, lot scepticism still remains regarding its applicability in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The purpose this paper understand the perception SMEs establish relationship between adoption operational performance. Design/methodology/approach With help survey, data were collected from 425 India analyzed using structural equation modeling. Findings Operational performance firms was found...

The manufacturing environment is now so competitive that the companies must not only continuously improve their performance, but also do it faster than others. Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) significantly contribute to industrial output of an economy, be for national economy in this era international business. With almost all productivity improvement (PI) tools requiring a working knowledge statistics, Indian SME manager with his semi-literate workforce little or no technical...

Purpose Today's customer‐focused paradigm of business environment puts tremendous pressures quality, delivery, dependability, flexibility and cost on the manufacturing organisation. Automatic systems offer several advantages are increasingly being adopted as a strategy to improve performance organisations. highly sophisticated expensive, it is therefore important maximise their productivity. Yet, one can only what measure. Performance measurement key improving performance, prerequisite...

In the epoch of open economy and with emergence availability individualised products over Internet, Indian manufacturing industries are facing an enormous pressure to become more flexible responsive, accomplish customer's varied increasing demands. Mass customisation (MC) is about developing a customised product on demand for particular customer after reception real order producing it similar operational efficiency as one would anticipate from mass-produced product. MC takes into account...

Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) play a pivotal role in economic growth, industrial output, employment creation. However, SMEs are often ignored by researchers as far the adoption of lean is concerned comparison to Large (LEs). Therefore, literature regarding implementation not conspicuous, many have only limited understanding awareness lean. This paper offers comprehensive review with focus on explores applicability thinking such environments. An attempt made provide an analysis...

For any country the project management has been a vital part for its development. The highly competitive business world created tremendous pressure on managers to achieve success. is derived from survival and profit building in organizations which compels pursue unethical practices. As result activities projects can be found easily where situations or issues arise due dubious practice, high corruption, absolute violation of law. recent spur Commonwealth games organized New Delhi indicates...

In this paper a modified simulated annealing (SA) based approach is presented for solving multi objective facility layout problem (MOFLP). It can incorporate more than two objectives that may be qualitative or quantitative in nature. Computational results show superiority of the proposed SA MOFLP over past approaches available literature. To validate approach, it tested on instances taken from literature which shows provides promising results.

Purpose This paper aims to discuss the concept of leanness and provide an effective assessment tool for measuring small medium enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach A hybrid interpretive structural modelling–analytical network process (ISM-ANP) approach is used develop index SMEs. The parameters are extracted from literature survey, inter-relationships among them identified through ISM approach. Further, ANP derive weights parameters, developed Findings model developed, which...

This paper deals with the problem of scheduling multiple projects sharing a common pool resources. New two-phase heuristics are proposed and compared existing single heuristics. These based on two-stage prioritisation process activities for resource allocation in which, at any decision point, first prioritised as per project selection rule eligible then activity rule. The categorized into look-ahead non-look-ahead type rules used. Performance is evaluated two stages performance measures –...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to gain insights about the applicability Lean principles in software industry along with implementation issues. Design/methodology/approach Exploratory case studies have been carried out five companies. Data were collected by observation and semi-structured interviews project managers. In paper, organizations are categorized as product vs development (SD) organization. Findings It found that although being adopted SD projects, application all not visible....

In the realm of supply chains, necessity a robust reverse logistics network is paramount. While substantial efforts have been directed towards enhancing forward logistics, domain remains underdeveloped. This article presents an approach that centers on formulation for Indian e-commerce company specializing in apparel sales. Through construction single and multi-objective integer programs, aim to simultaneously mitigate economic costs environmental repercussions. To tactfully address concerns...