LARGe Supply Chain Management attempts to put together Lean

Lean

-In business:* Lean Startup, how to start a company in a lean way* Lean manufacturing, process improvement discipline* Lean construction is a translation and adaption of lean manufacturing principles and practices to the end-to-end design and construction process...

, Agile

Agile

Agile can refer to:*Agility*Agile , an American Thoroughbred racehorse* Agile management*Association of Geographic Information Laboratories for Europe *Agile Software Corporation, a provider of product lifecycle management solutions...

, Resilient, and Green approaches in Supply Chain Management

Supply chain management

Supply chain management is the management of a network of interconnected businesses involved in the ultimate provision of product and service packages required by end customers...

. Lean supply chain management aims to get close to zero inventories and reduce work-in-process; Agile goes for quick respond to customer enquiries and market changes while controlling costs and quality; Resilience is about sustaining disturbances which may hit supply chain; and Green refers to sustainability

Sustainability

Sustainability is the capacity to endure. For humans, sustainability is the long-term maintenance of well being, which has environmental, economic, and social dimensions, and encompasses the concept of union, an interdependent relationship and mutual responsible position with all living and non...

 in supply chain through low emission to the nature and recycling strategy for products.

History

The idea of LARGe SCM was developed in the research unit in mechanical and industrial engineering (UNIDEMI) in faculty of science and technology at New University of Lisbon, Portugal. UNIDEMI is the main research center which working on LARGe SCM. UNINOVA and NECE are other partners who are contributing to it.

Overview

A lean company means nearly zero inventories; a resilient company must have enough inventories to react to the effects of disruptions that may occur in a supply chain. These concepts seem to be contradictory . However, it would be ideal to have both systems working together in a company . These facts advice for further research in production and supply chain management; lean and resilient concepts require to be modelled on a compatibility basis.
LARGe SCM develops a deep understanding of interrelationships (conflicts and trade-offs) across lean, agile, resilient and green supply chain paradigms. This understanding is believed to be vital to turn these concepts really compatible. This achievement will provide an important contribution for a competitive and sustainable environment; its justification will be based on better “lean, agile, resilient and green production systems” at the company level, with implications at the overall supply chain level and its agents.
LARGe SCM encompasses a variety of related topics such as methodology, characteristics , organizational system, Performance measurement

Performance Measurement

Performance measurement with a process is the complement to process execution. Based on measured performance, the feedback control loop may be closed. The metrics to assess performance is set according to a determined econometric model...

  , human factors

Human factors

Human factors science or human factors technologies is a multidisciplinary field incorporating contributions from psychology, engineering, industrial design, statistics, operations research and anthropometry...

 , information system

Information system

An information system - or application landscape - is any combination of information technology and people's activities that support operations, management, and decision making. In a very broad sense, the term information system is frequently used to refer to the interaction between people,...

, and management integration model .