After several years of implementing a Continuous Improvement / Lean culture at a localised level with some degree of success, AstraZeneca has adopted a standard Lean implementation program that is being rolled out to all supply sites within the global network.

What this has meant for AZ Australia is a focussed approach to the development of 5 key areas - the development of the processes, the information systems, the organisational structure, the people and the capability of its leaders.
The strategy has reinforced the need to continue to make continuous incremental change in the right areas whilst also providing a new framework within which transformational change to these 5 key areas can occur.
This session will describe the core principles underlying the AZ Lean strategy and how this has been applied locally at the North Ryde site.