Improving supply chain performance: The strategic integration of lean and agile supply chain

By emergence of new areas of business in which change is an inevitable feature, it is difficult to survive and succeed in the manufacturing systems. In other words, business environment changes and today's work which results from changes in customer needs leads to uncertainty in parameters. Therefore, it is necessary for supply chain to be flexible in decision making while encountering these uncertainties. For supply chain performance to be more improved in this paper, first, the patterns of lean and agile supply chain will be examined, then by introducing Leagilty Supply Chain, the relationship between product life cycle of different products (standard, innovative, hybrid) and selection of the proper type of supply chain will be examined.

Leanness, agility, leagility, supply chain management, product life cycle