It is needed to be noticed that the basic principle of lean thinking is to reduce the waste; therefore, the lean is considered effective in the companies so that the waste can be decreased. Moreover, lean can also cut down the company excessive cost and in this way departments can also stay up-to-date with the intangible information as well as the materials. NBC Oman can also improve the efficiency through undertaking the lean principles. (Wibowo & Handayani, 2017).

Source: This figure is adapted by taking the ideas from this reference (Wibowo & Handayani, 2017).

There are seven wastes discussed here for National Beverages Corporation;

Overproduction of the National Beverages Company

        NBC also need to manage the overproduction, as though this company can manage its demand. Moreover, through this strategy company can also beat its customers and production can be done according to the demand of the customers. There are various unseen demands that need to be considered and based on what stock can also be managed.

Inventory of the National Beverages Company

        The system of the inventory in the waste management and lean of the waste management is occurred just because of the excess of the product which is required for serving the customers and it is known as the waste. Due to the long lead time, it occurs in the NBC. It also occurs due to the forecasting errors, overproduction and batch thinking in the production of the various products of the NBC which are based on the economies scale.  The overproduction of the products of the NBC is suggested by the report and it must be likely to have some inventory waste (Wibowo & Handayani, 2017).

References of Implementation of Lean for NBC Oman

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Available at: http://www.biz-development.com/SupplyChain/6.20.3.supply-chain-management-traditional-and-modern-view-to-supply-chain.htm

Wibowo, A. T. & Handayani, N. U., 2017. Design implementation of lean supply chain management: A case study on loading process of fertilizer at PT Petrokimia Gresik port. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1902(1).

Wolf, J., 2014. The relationship between sustainable supply chain management, stakeholder pressure and corporate sustainability performance.. Journal of Business Ethics, 119(3), pp. 317-328.