Many organizations are confronted with the challenge of improving supply chain
transparency not only to meet regulatory requirements, but also to optimize operations …

Lean management (LM) has attracted the interest of scientists and practitioners since 1990,
when Womack et al.(Womack, JP, Jones, DT and Roos, D.(1990). The Machine that …

The most recent trend manufacturers have embraced to seek operational performance
improvements is the use of a wide range of digital technologies typically associated with …

Industry 4.0 is increasingly being promoted as the key to improving productivity, promoting
economic growth and ensuring the sustainability of manufacturing companies. On the other …

Firms do not currently fully appreciate the complex characteristics of Industry 4.0 and as a
result are uncertain about what it represents for them. In this study, an assessment model is …

The evolution of information technology and its introduction into production processes is
transforming traditional industry, bringing it to a new level of organizational development. In …

Data have been utilised in production research in meaningful ways for decades. Recent
years have offered data in larger volumes and improved quality collected from diverse …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to develop an effective methodology for implementing
lean manufacturing strategies and a leanness evaluation metric using continuous …

Purpose Lean manufacturing (LM) concepts have been widely adopted in diverse industrial
sectors. However, no literature review focusing on case studies describing LM …

Supply chain visibility (SCV) has been gaining recognition in recent years as a key factor for
achieving analytical capabilities and improving supply chain performance. However, levels …