Goals of a Lean Enterprise

There are four basic goals of a lean enterprise:

1. Improve Quality. Quality can be defined as the ability for your products or services to meet your customer’s requirements. This goal begins with understanding your customer’s expectations, so that you can design processes that will meet these expectations.
2. Eliminate Waste. Waste is any activity that does not add value to the product or service. The activity does not add value if the customer is not willing to pay more money for this activity.
3. Reduce Lead Time. By reducing the lead time in all areas involved in meeting the customer expectation (including the gathering of information in the sales function), a lean enterprise can more quickly respond to the customer.
4. Reduce Total Costs. Total costs are defined as the total direct and indirect costs associated with the production of a product or service. To reduce its total costs, a lean enterprise must eliminate waste and reduce lead times.

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