Mangesh A. Ahire

S. B. Rane

JR Jadhav

Abstract

The desire to become the market winner has left all the enterprises in a highly competitive era. In this competitive situation the lean, agile, and leagile principles are really proving to be of huge importance for these modern industries. To achieve this important objectives of reduced production time, proper utilization of resources, handling demand uncertainty, and reducing wastes helps them to carry on in the market. The leagile principles based on the product generalization, which enables the industries to go for the generic product as far as in their supply chain, so that the chances of the product to be outdated becomes minium. At that point based on the customer and material information, the supply chain shifts to follow, the agile principles further downstream the supply chain. This unique feature of leagile principle makes it, a reliable strategy for the modern enterprises. Realizing these facts this research proposal discusses the importance of the leagile principles in the modern supply chain. Most of the findings of this study (literature review) were based on informal discussions with many industry examples through various types of charts.

Keywords- Lean, agile, and leagile, modern supply chain,etc.