The Application Research Of Lean Management In Kunming Cigarette Fatory

Lean management is a management and production philosophy that reduces waste such as time, space, labor, fund, and material in every aspect of supply chain in order to provide consumers with quality products and satisfaction besides improving management into a more efficient, more methodical, and more ascensive level. Lean management has a magical effect on improving competitive power for a enterprise. It is also a developed managing method which can solve some production managing problems confronted by cigarette industry nowadays.As the main factory that produces nationally critical brand "Yunyan", Kunming Cigarette Factory is equipped with advanced technology and machine, while there is still a long way to go in optimizing management level. Now it is a primary task for Kunming Cigarette Factory to find a effective way in applying lean management therefore totally impBased on the successful experience given by Toyota, this essay introduces concept and theory of lean management, illustrating meaning and structure so as to offer direction for studying lean management theory. Focusing on the development trend and situation of Kunming Cigarette Factory, this essay studies the application of relative theory used now, besides evaluating the achievement, finding problems and giving advices. This research has application value for improving managing and producing, also reference value for practicing lean management in cigarette industry.