Thinking lean

How e-commerce companies can leverage 5Ms to optimise resources

Shyam Motwani 

Shyam Motwani

Lean manufacturing and its tools have transformed the manufacturing sector over decades, but the Lean concept is also proving useful in digital businesses such as e-commerce. Lean Thinking focuses on streamlining the manufacturing process as a whole.

It enables organisations to optimise/reduce resources — ideally, to the edge of frugality — and can be applied to almost every resource deployed in manufacturing, including the 5Ms: Men, Materials, Machines, Money and Methods. One of the key tools within Lean Thinking is the Runners, Repeaters, Strangers (RRS) approach. RRS ...

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First Published: Wed, March 13 2019. 21:07 IST