LEAN INVENTORY PRACTICES AND MANUFACTURING CYCLE TIME REDUCTION: ALUMINUM FABRICATION COMPANIES IN IKEJA AND BENIN CITY CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Abstract Aluminium fabrication companies located in Ikeja, Lagos, and Benin City, Edo exhibit prolonged manufacturing cycle times averaging between 38 and 47 days despite processing identical extrusions and profiles. This inefficiency stems from excessive work-in-progress inventory, […]