CHALLENGES IN IMPLEMENTATION OF LEAN MANAGEMENT IN INDIAN MSMES – A STUDY
Keywords:
Lean, Challenges in Lean management implementation, Indian MSMEsAbstract
Lean Management system is acknowledged as innovative, creative and capable system, which helps in improving organisational performance by concentrating on elimination of wastages from the manufacturing system and thus improving productivity, reducing defects, reducing inventory cost and more, by MSMEs. Even now, many Indian MSMEs are using Lean as improvement tool instead of adopting it as an organisational culture. If implemented on full scale as a culture in the organisation, it can reap a very significant improvement in organisational performance. This paper has attempted to explore the key challenges and classifying each challenges into appropriate categories, then providing constructive suggestions in extensive implementation of Lean in Indian MSMEs.
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