COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LEAN AND AGILE SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT ALONG WITH THE OPTIMAL MODEL PRESENTATION OF AGILE SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Abstract

With the beginning 21st century manufacturing organization felt major and strongly changes about their. These changes will lead organizations to the challenges such as reduced product life cycle, minimum production cost and responding to diverse needs of customers that organizations for survival must be noted it until take minimum of loss and maximum of benefit from these changes .Factors such as technological advancement, globalization of markets, intense competition for customer acquisition has been lead to chaos and instability in the markets. These factors have caused that companies for their progress take assist supply chain management. Initially, this paper briefly explores to the concept lean production and agile then have been studied agile supply chain optimization models and agile and lean supply chain model is discussed and compared according to value of the customer's perspective, features and according to the type of product and the period of their life and also to points of their similarity and
contrast referred to in the supply chain until framework is provide to help managers and decision makers in the supply chain.