The Impact of Lean Manufacturing Practices in Enhancing Sustainable Performance through Lean Culture: Field Study at the General Company for Food Products – Baghdad

Abstract

The study aimed to determine the effect of lean manufacturing practices in enhancing sustainable performance by mediating the lean culture in the General Company for Food Products in Baghdad, the field of study represented by the factories (Al-Maamoun, Al-Rasheed, and Al-Amin), where the study included the independent variable of lean manufacturing practices in their dimensions (comprehensive productive maintenance, map). Value flow, production on time, speed of preparation and preparation) in achieving sustainable performance in its dimensions (economic performance, social performance, environmental performance) by mediating the lean culture in its dimensions (continuous improvement, organizing the work site, reducing waste, and lean thinking). The study attempted to answer the questions that express the problem of the study, including: Is there an effect of lean manufacturing practices and the lean culture in achieving sustainable performance? The questionnaire was distributed to a sample of technicians in the company’s factories in the field of study. The study relied on the questionnaire as the main tool for collecting data through a random sample that included (218) technicians working in the factories under study. Some statistical methods were used for the two ready-made programs (SPSS, v.28, AOMS, V.26(. The study results that the primacy of the variables based on their relative importance, as they were respectively (lean culture, lean manufacturing, and sustainable performance). The results of the study showed that there is an effect of lean manufacturing practices in sustainable performance through the lean culture, The Food Industries Company was able to reduce unnecessary activities by using a lean culture to reduce waste, and this led to improving and sustaining performance in the company’s field of study.