Enabler to Successful Implementation of Lean Supply Chain in a Book Publisher

The intense business competition nowadays forces many industries to be able to perform their activities more efficient compare to their competitors. If at the past the competition is between the company and its competitor, however this paradigm is now changing. The competition is now longer between the company and its competitor but the competition is between a company's supply chain and its competitor's supply chain. Managing a supply chain require the knowledge of what key success variables for the implementation of supply chain strategy. One of supply chain strategy is lean supply chain strategy. The lean strategy concept matches with the company that has characteristics such as producing with high volume but less variety of products. CV. Andi Offset as a book publisher and offset company is also trying to apply the lean supply chain strategy to manage all activities in their supply chain. However key success variables of implementation lean supply chain have not been studied yet. The research in this paper is trying to use the Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) method to identify the hierarchy variables that affect the successful implementation of lean supply chain in CV. Andi Offset. The results show us that there are 10 success variables of implementing lean supply chain strategy. In addition, relationships among these variables are identified. ISM model shows that advanced in the use of IT and change management variables are the major key success variables of the successful implementation of lean supply chain in CV. Andi Offset.