Ezekiel O. Adeleye

TL;DR: The paper reviews emerging patterns in supply chain integration and explores the relationship between the emerging patterns and attainment of competitive objectives and validate the proposed conceptual model and lend credence to current thinking that supply chain Integration is a vital tool for competitive advantage.

TL;DR: In this article, a comparative study of lean and agile manufacturing with a related survey of current practices in the UK was carried out, the results of which is presented in this paper.

TL;DR: The findings show that market turbulence has negative universal effects and that agile manufacturing enablers are being progressively deployed and aided by BDBA to yield better competitive and business performance objectives.

TL;DR: It is argued that agile manufacturing is at the centre of achieving a sustainable competitive advantage, especially in light of current unprecedented market instability coupled with complex customer requirements, and the emphasis which agile manufacturing places on responsive adaptability would counter the destabilising influence of competitive pressures on organisations performance criteria.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported a study which identified significant relationship between models of competitive manufacturing and business performance outcomes and discussed the nature and importance of competitive objectives and their impacts on business performance.