Abstract
The Fast-Moving Consumer Goods sector has been facing various challenges in South Africa and other developing countries. the FMCG sector has policy which need to be applied but it is not being implemented properly to minimise corruption in the sector and to improve Lean Manufacturing (LM) in the sector, to alleviate corruption, to create more productivity by utilising minimum resources and trying to minimise waste in the industry while will minimise all kinds of pollution and practice all the principles of lean and create more employment. Aalthough a number of studies have been conducted over the past two decades, to address these issues but they is still a gap in the current review, therefore the aim of this paper aimed to theoretically assess Lean in the Fast Moving Consumer goods sector. The result of the critical analysis of current literature clearly indicated that they are flaws related to lack of lean implementation in the Small-Medium enterprises in the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods sector and majority of the research was conducted in qualitative.