Four Strategies to Help Move Beyond Lean and Build a Competitive Advantage

For companies that make complex, configurable products, lean manufacturing principles have become an integral part of their day-to-day operations. No surprise there. Over the past 30 years, lean has helped these companies streamline manufacturing and supply chain processes to eliminate waste and create important business benefits. But there's now statistical evidence showing that in discrete manufacturing, the presumed benefits from lean have not yielded the competitive advantage that manufacturers had hoped for.

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