Utilization of Lean Purchasing Tools in the Supply Chain Improvement Process

• Autorzy: Anna Łupicka-Fietz , Damian Kowalczyk
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Purpose: The rationale for writing this article is pragmatic. With the numerous challenges facing manufacturing companies and their purchasing departments, "tools" are needed to help them meet these challenges. Although Lean Management tools are very widely described in the scientific literature, the number of such publications on Lean Purchasing tools is insignificant. Design/methodology/approach: The paper poses two research questions: 1) What management instruments can be used within the Lean Purchasing concept? and 2) What management instruments, recommended by Lean Purchasing, are most often used in procurement purchasing activities? It was decided to conduct a survey of a purposively selected research group. This group consisted of senior executives managing procurement purchasing in manufacturing companies (directors of the purchasing department) and owners, or presidents, of manufacturing companies. Such a choice of respondents involved conducting the survey on a smaller non-random sample, but made it possible to obtain representative results, thanks to the broad knowledge and professional experience, as well as knowledge of the specifics of the operation of manufacturing enterprises, of the survey participants. The survey covered a total of 120 enterprises. Findings: An analysis of the results of the frequency of use of Lean Purchasing tools, as determined by all respondents, distinguishes the following tools, which are used by the majority (>50%) of the surveyed manufacturing companies: process and/or purchasing standardization, teamwork, team partnerships, learning by doing, supplier development, brainstorming, 5x why? and within the key process performance indicators: on-time delivery, or on-time and full-quantity delivery, material price index, number of defective parts per million units. Research limitations/implications: The use of Lean Purchasing tools is still little known among micro, small and medium-sized enterprises. These companies took part in the survey conducted, however, due to the fact that the main research group in the study is large enterprises (63.3%), it was considered an insufficient research sample to be able to refer to this as a representative example to fill this research gap. The results included in the paper, however, can serve as a reference example for researchers wishing to address this issue in the future. Originality/value: The article is an original proposal, based on the results of a survey on the use of management instruments recommended by Lean Purchasing. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Lean management; Supply chain; Organization of purchasing process; Purchasing strategy; Purchase management

PL

Odchudzone zarządzanie; Łańcuch dostaw; Organizacja procesu zakupów; Strategia zakupów; Zarządzanie zakupem

• Czasopismo: Zeszyty Naukowe. Organizacja i Zarządzanie / Politechnika Śląska
• Rocznik: 2024
• Numer: z. 196 Współczesne zarządzanie = Contemporary Management
• Strony: 257--277

Twórcy

autor

Anna Łupicka-Fietz

• Poznan University of Economics and Business, Poland

autor

Damian Kowalczyk

• Poznan University of Economics and Business, Poland

Bibliografia

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DOI

https://managementpapers.polsl.pl/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/196-%C5%81upicka-Fietz-Kowalczyk.pdf