ABSTRACT
What Is Lean Commerce? Lean Commerce is the closed-loop IT-based business process model that supports manufacturing and service companies striving to reduce cycle time, flatten organizational layers, and “lean” processes. Lean Commerce is the business systems model that enables the Virtual Lean Enterprise by providing an overall design for the construction and use of the IT architectures for supply-chain management interchange of rapid communication of material requirements. Lean Commerce drives quick recognition and response by providing current supply and demand information wherever and whenever that information is needed throughout the chain of transactions and activities in the virtual and physical spaces that constitute the Virtual Lean Enterprise.
