Enterprise planning of Total Life cycle Lean Thinking

The application of lean thinking obtains saltant advancements and has turned into a new generation guidance thinking of management revolution since 21st century. However, because lean thinking was born of ´production´ and ´manufacturing´, people mistake ´lean´ as JIT etc chronically, and traditional applications of lean thinking are also limited in ´production´, ´manufacturing´ and JIT. This article points out the limitations of traditional thinking and advances ´total life cycle lean thinking´ throughout the total life cycle of product on this basis. Afterwards, the article applies ´lean thinking´ to plant design, that is enterprise planning, and then expatiates on enterprise planning.