In recent years, “lean” and “agile” have aroused great
interest in the research of supply chain management. Naylor
Naim, and Berry [11] defines the two paradigms as follows:
Leanness means developing a value stream to eliminate all
waste, including time, and to ensure a level schedule.
Agility means using market knowledge and a virtual
corporation to exploit profitable opportunities in a volatile
marketplace.
Lean was usually connected was lean manufacturing. Booth
[1] put forward that that there was a need to adopt the lean
manufacturing paradigm and now manufacturers should strive
to become agile. In reality, the two paradigms can complement
each other. They share a common objective: meeting customer
demands at the least total cost. In many cases, a hybrid
“leagile” supply chain strategy can be adopted.
This paper analyzes lean production and agile
manufacturing. We compare them and the discuss how to
integrate the lean and agile supply chain. The purpose of the