Zwischen Lean und MES bestehen Synergiepotentiale und Widersprüche. Thorsten Gerberich entwickelt und testet ein Vorgehensmodell, das in den Unternehmen der Automobilzulieferindustrie angewendet werden kann. „Too often there is confusion that lean and IT do not mix well and pure pull cannot involve IT. (...)Thorsten Gerberich does a nice job of sorting through the confusion and providing a useful framework for thinking about how to use IT to enable your lean systems.“ Jeffrey K. Liker, Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan