Schaeffler Group Lean Supply Chain Research

Lean Production is a tool for contemporary enterprises to enhance production efficiency and better serve our customers, and supply chain management in the enterprise is playing a strategic role for business administration, In manufacturing, as well as many other industries, the competitive supply chain is the critical factor of market competency has been common sense.but how to integrate the essence of lean manufacturing concepts and excellent supply chain management, not only affect on lean concept implemented in SCM scope but also related to how we expand the richness of the supply chain methodology, so that to achieve overall optimization and improvement.To achieve these goals, this paper specifically talks about how to combine lean thinking with supply chain management practice in the Schaeffler groupIn this paper, we take Schaeffler supply chain as a research objective, and use lean production theory as well as the theory of supply chain management to be the guidance, using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to analysis the overall supply chain system of schaeffler group. At the same time based on the evaluation results on how to improve Schaeffler supply chain systems, we also suggest the measuresThis paper total is divided into six parts.The first part is introduction of this research background, research purposes, research significance, research status, research ideas and research methodsThe second part focuses on lean manufacturing ideas and concepts, and how to bridge lean production philosophy to lean supply chain managementThe third part, analysis the current status of the Schaeffler Holding (China) Co., Ltd., as soon as to confirm its outstanding market position, we also point out its supply chain management problems.The fouth part, system described Schaeffler build lean supply chain thinking The last part, describes the implementation and controlling of Sales lean supply chain, due to this concept is also the last, to connect lean supply chain management with the sale management...