CONCEPT OF LEAN MANUFACTURING IN TERMS OF SUSTAINBALE DEVELOPMENT OF UKRAINE

Abstract

Methodologies of cost management have undergone a rather large development over the
last century. The most innovative among them is a lean manufacturing. In the terms of
the emergence of social entrepreneurship in Ukraine, in which one of the main ideas is
attraction of alternative resource sources in order to minimize the environmental impact,
the traditional concept of the lean manufacturing requires changes that would make
possible to assess the company's results not only from an economic point of view, but
also from the social and environmental, ensuring sustainable development. Theoretical
and methodological approaches of scientists concerning the research of aspects of the
concept of lean manufacturing, its methods and the concept of sustainable development
were analyzed and generalized. The concept of a combination of lean manufacturing
and sustainable development was developed. Transformation of the enterprise within
the framework of the concept runs in three stages, each of which is implemented within
a certain component of sustainable development. The first stage is the transformation of
management, strategy development, technical re-equipment which is implemented
within the economic component, the second stage - personnel transformation is
implemented within the social one, the third stage – reduction of environmental burden
and spreading own ideas within client is implemented within the framework of
environmental development. In order to assess the adequacy of the proposed concept,
authors analyzed it on an example of PJSC "Carlsberg Ukraine", that implements its
own program of sustainable development called "Together Towards ZERO".
Consequently, as a result of internal transformations in accordance with the concepts of
lean manufacturing and sustainable development, enterprise is able to release part of
working capital and direct it towards creating a social good. A hidden potential of such
combination of the concept of lean manufacturing and sustainable development is yet to
uncover, which necessitates the further research.