Quadrant III - Vulnerable: 44 of 86 companies (51.16% of the total). Most of the companies were located in this sector, with 21 of them (47.73%), in the area of the Critical or
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Backward ones, because of their rating lower than 2.5 or 50% of Positioning, as a cause of their zero or minimal application of Lean practices.
Quadrant IV - Promising: 19 of 86 companies, which belong to the 33.72% of the studied total. It is the second sector with the largest number of located organizations.
The previous data are the result of the particular behavior in the bakeries in the implementation or development of each of the Lean practices or analyzed factors. Being VSM practices (this due to the lack of knowledge of the concept and therefore the importance of it inside the organization), JIT (there is not an U plant distribution and equipment that facilitate the production in small batches, devices between workstations to control transport and production, balancing lines for the order assignment, deliveries in small quantities several times a day by both external and internal suppliers) and Management (lack of training of employees, knowledge of the production capacity, organizational structure, participation of employees in the business decision making), in that order, are the critical points.
Figure 1 shows the companies combination in every quadrant, according to the Development of the practices Lean and Positioning Factor (FP)