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LEAN THINKING AS WAY OF IMPROVING EFFICIENCY OF CROATIAN SME’S

Lean thinking is way of improving efficiency in not only production but also in all companies in the world. Lean thinking philosophy includes principles of reducing waste in production and running company and giving customer only what is value for him. Lean thinking has started in automotive industry fifty years ago and now implementation of lean thinking is present in different industrial sectors and also coming to the service companies and in offices. In reducing waste companies need to address seven different types of waste and they need to do that in five steps of lean thinking. There are several different tools which companies can use in their “fight against the waste” in company processes. Lean help companies in becoming faster, better, their products and or services are cheaper and they become more attractive to their customers. For most of Croatian SME’s lean thinking is still unknown but if lean thinking is implemented in SME’s there is increase of the efficiency and saving in time and money. Second part of the paper will examine how implementation of lean thinking in one of the Croatian SME’s can improve efficiency and save time. Based on presented example of lean thinking implementation in every day’s processes in one Croatian SME, company managed to save time and money.

Operations management ; Lean ; Lean thinking ; Improving efficiency

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