Analysis and implementation: Le-agile supply chain in telecom manufacturing

This paper aims to understand and analyze the design, mapping and implementation of leagile supply chain. Leanness and agility are two essential attributes of any supply chain. Where leanness may be achieved by eliminating non-value added items and time, agility usually requires the ability to configure and incorporate items to align to changing market environment. It is demonstrated how the “lean ” and “agile ” paradigms may be integrated and the decoupling point of transition from lean to agile supply chain be identified. The paper is focused onthe Mobile devices manufacturing industry. This is an industry that needs to be agile due to the fast changing demand of handset models, while at the same time keep itself lean to minimize its cost due to the extreme competition in the industry. Case of a MNC company is analysed to draw out how the global giants devise its supply chain to keep it lean and agile. This requires development and evaluation of leagility metrics and to determine the decoupling point for a leagile supply chain, which has been practically implemented in this paper.