ABSTRACT
When the ERP Project Manager Is the Lean Champion The Mass Production Era of the Industrial Age is now ending and the Lean Production Era is emerging to succeed it. The Lean Production Era is exemplified by processes based in systems of cultural cooperation, differing fundamentally from the Western systems of cultural competition. Outsourcing and offshoring are the latest stages of Western cultural competition and are fueling the expanding shift to Lean Production as great volumes of goods and services formerly produced in Western Mass Production facilities are now produced in Eastern Lean Production facilities.
