Aligning Performance Measurement System with Lean Manufacturing Enterprise

Abstract

The importance of the research arises from the scientific debate recently raised about successful spreading of lean practices application across three different stages of development in lean thinking. During the last fifteen years, lean principles and practices have developed from production cell level to value stream level and finally to the modern direction towards lean enterprise perspective which requires a performance measurement system both analogical and supportive to this development.The expansion in the application of lean practices at every stage of lean development increases the degree of complexity in order to achieve synchronization through managing lean value streams within the enterprise, which require the researches to focus on how to design a performance measurement and evaluation model at lean enterprise level.This research attempts to reach a model to evaluate performance at enterprise level; a model which meets the needs of management and stakeholders in performance evaluation.  This leads to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of managing the enterprise performance under the transformation to Lean Enterprise.

Keywords: lean performance Measurement System