was pursued through the re-engineering of the
production flow and the implementation of a pull-based
system. Results from the case study show that it was a
successful choice: efficiency KPIs, Works in Process, Cycle
Time, etc. were dramatically improved.
The paper is structured as follows: section 2 is devoted to
presenting the context and the state of the art of Lean
Management in the pharmaceutical industry. In section 3,
a case study is presented and discussed. Section 4
provides some final remarks.