Creating Lean Suppliers: Diffusing Lean Production Through the Supply Chain

Honda of America has developed a comprehensive approach to teaching the principles of lean production to its suppliers. The centerpiece of these efforts is a program called BP (for "Best process", "Best Performance", "Bs Practice"), in which a crossfunctional team of...

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Main Authors: MacDuffie, John Paul, Helper, Susan
Language:en_US
Published: 2002
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1455