An Empirical Study About the Effectiveness of Lean Empowerment in Warehouses

Authors

Kai Furmans, Karlsruhe Institute of TechnologyFollow
Payam Dehdari, Robert Bosch GmbH

Document Type

Research Paper

Publication Date

2014

Abstract

Lean Management is well established in production environments. Some empirical evidences are available which suggest that in production systems lean management achieves positive results. For warehousing, some works have already been done, which deal with the application and adaption of lean tools for usage in warehousing. In order to answer the question, whether the application of lean tools leads to a better performance however, no study is available today. Therefore, an empirical study has been conducted, where the effectiveness of lean empowerment has been tested and compared to the performance of warehouse, who continued to work as before.

Comments

Paper 4

Publication Title

Progress in Material Handling Research: 2014

ISBN

9781882780183

Recommended Citation

Furmans, Kai and Dehdari, Payam, "An Empirical Study About the Effectiveness of Lean Empowerment in Warehouses" (2014). 13th IMHRC Proceedings (Cincinnati, Ohio. USA – 2014). 13.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/pmhr_2014/13