DOI: 10.33917/mic-2.127.2026.73-83

The article examines Lean as a platform for supplier development, analyzing key tools — 5S, VSM, Kaizen, SMED, TPM, and Kanban — and their role in enhancing discipline, transparency, and a culture of continuous improvement. It describes a phased implementation of programs: diagnosis, training, execution, and standardization. Special attention is given to Lean as a mindset that fosters engagement, trust, and sustainable development of partnership relationships within the supply chain.

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In the article the author addresses the problem of assessing effectiveness of innovation strategies of socially responsible businesses and provides an overview of the most promising and relevant approaches to evaluation. In the author’s field of view there are such approaches as evaluation of stock exchange indices, the status of socially responsible projects in business organizations, non-financial reporting, introduction of KPI indicators in implementation of innovative strategies, monitoring, rational and ethical approaches, as well as the evaluation methods described in the manual by G.F. Ostapenko “Corporate Social Responsibility” and in the article by O.А. Leshchenko “Modern methods of assessing effectiveness of companies activities in the CSR field”.