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A business system for organizing and managing product development, operations, suppliers, and customer relations.
Meaning and application in management
A business system for organizing and managing product development, operations, suppliers, and customer relations. Compared with mass production, lean production requires less human effort, less space, less capital, and less time to make products with fewer defects to precise customer desires. See : Toyota Production System. Compare with : Mass Production.
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