
Lean Manufacturing: Lean manufacturing aims at reducing the cost and minimizing the waste involved in the production, in order to optimize the value for the product or the service.
Situation:
CEO of Company P after returning from a management seminar on lean philosophy intends to follow it. So the CEO issues a circular informing the employees about lean manufacturing and asking the employees to eliminate excess inventory. Also the employees are asked to reduce the inventory till they reach Just in time production.
To Respond: To the given situation of inventory reduction.

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