Answer:
Management and employees must be convinced of benefit and receive training prior to conversion to avoid obstacles.
Explanation:
A lean business is a business concept used by organizations to eliminate waste and maximize value for growth and development. The lean business concept include the following;
I. A total quality management (TQM): it is a management framework that is focused on achieving long-term success through the satisfaction of your customers by the efforts of all the member of staff in an organization.
II. A continuous improvement (CI): it is a management technique that is focused on improving manufacturing processes, products and services through the elimination of redundancy and time-wasting activities in an organization.
III. Just-in-time (JIT): it is a management framework that is focused on cutting manufacturing costs and increase efficiency between suppliers and consumers through the use of a proper inventory system.
Additionally, lean production is a manufacturing methodology that is focused on integrating activities that are designed to provide massive quantity with high quality production using minimal resources, raw materials, finished products and work-in-process features.
This ultimately implies that, lean production is basically a supply management process aimed at elimination of waste as much as possible and it requires a mutual agreement between the management and employees, as well as proper training of the employees (workers) before implementing the conversion.
Hence, the statement which is correct about planning a successful conversion to Lean/Just-in-time operations is that both management and employees must be convinced of benefit and receive training prior to conversion to avoid obstacles.
