Abstract
Sustainability has received significant attention of firms.by reducing resources
wastes and increasing organizations’ overall performance Small and medium size
enterprises (SMEs) in manufacturing sector and developing economies are
growing well and contributing a major proportion in total manufacturing yield.
Past researches explored that lean manufacturing (LM) practices and sustainability
can achieve excellent results by implementing them altogether. Hence, SMEs need
to adopt sustainable lean manufacturing practices as this can address economic and
environmental concerns together. However, the prior investigations have not
thoroughly explored the success factors for sustainable LM implementation in
SMEs. This provides the motivation for the present study. Thus, in this paper most
relevant critical success factors (CSF) for sustainable lean manufacturing are
identified with the help of existing literature and experts' opinions and further
processed to investigate their relative importance applying an Analytical Hierarchy
Process (AHP) technique. This study concludes with some managerial
implications which will help the policy makers in government and industry to
concentrate on couple of significant CSFs to encourage the sustainable lean
manufacturing implementation in SMEs with minimum resource utilization.
Muhammad Mohsin Rashid, Prof. Dr. Arshad Hussain Qureshi, Dr. Muhammad Usman Awan, Dr. Asif Mahmood, Dr. Ayyaz Ahmad. (2020) Identifying and ranking critical success factors for sustainable lean manufacturing implementation in automotive sector using (AHP) approach, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume 57, Issue 1.
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