Lean Supply Chain Management and Sustainability
Lean supply chain management is one of the emergent fields of interest among academics and practitioners. Many organizations are using Lean principles in their supply chain. However, the success of the initiatives is mixed. The purpose of this chapter is to evaluate existing literature on Lean supply chain management and sustainability to construct a model for sustainable implementation of Lean supply chain management through an integrative review. An integrative review methodology is followed to review the existing 39 literature to construct a sustainable LSCM model. This chapter further discusses the integration philosophy of eight pillars of Lean supply chain management with sustainability using the triple bottom line approach. This is the first chapter as per the knowledge of the author to discuss the issues of sustainability in Lean supply chain management.