A common theme among LeanCor customer on-sites is ensuring that we are showing our customer contacts the value of the operational and strategic work that we do. As we start ...
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Setting Customer Expectations the SMART Way
A common theme among LeanCor customer on-sites is ensuring that we are showing our customer contacts the value of the operational and strategic work that we do. As we start to define our Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) by customer, one approach would be to follow the SMART model. The SMART model (Specific, Measure, Attainable, Relevant, [...]
Lean Logistics: Key Factors to a Returnable Packaging System
A common knee jerk reaction to a container shortage is to buy more containers or return more frequently. Buying additional containers should be the last step, only after thoroughly evaluating all known factors as well as identifying the unknowns. If this analysis\investigation is not completed, you will perpetually experience shortages, no matter how many additional [...]
Facility Start-Ups: Tips for Building a Lean Foundation
I began my Lean Journey on April 26, 2010. I had no idea what lean was, but I knew I wanted to learn more about it. I left my previous employer after a year and was in search of more of a career within the supply chain. I began networking and was contacted by a [...]
Learning to ECHO Lean in a Facility Start-Up
Recently I’ve had the opportunity to be part of a start-up facility. With any start-up comes lots of new challenges – mainly with implementation and then sustaining that implementation. Plans are great in theory, but how do we get everyone on board and moving? As my facility team picked up speed it began to feel [...]
Even Flow…Not Just a Great Pearl Jam Tune
Here’s some easy supply chain math to get us started today. How many dock doors do you need to support an inbound operation that averages 100 deliveries a day, if each door can handle 20 per day? The easy answer is 5. The real answer is much more complicated than that. The real answer is: [...]
New Gemba-Based Workshop This June
in partnership with is offering a unique hands-on GEMBA-based workshop for supply chain and distribution professionals. The lean journey generally begins inside the four walls of the manufacturing facility, however eventually it extends to the supply base and our customers. As we begin focusing on waste elimination, inventory reduction and flow, we quickly realize that [...]
Inventory Has a Purpose!
Now that I have your attention, let me explain that declaration before you start calling me crazy in the comments section. In my role as an on-site manager for a large manufacturing customer, I was following up on some supplier short shipping issues that were impacting truck utilization, expedites, and transportation cost. When I spoke [...]
It’s Finally Here….People: A Leader’s Day-To-Day Guide To Building, Managing, and Sustaining Lean Organizations
Coming May 1st… Building a lean problem-solving culture begins and ends with people and leadership. While many books teach about lean tools, few address the day-to-day leadership requirements of successfully transforming organizations into the lean enterprise. In 15 easy-to-read-and-reference chapters, People: A leader’s day-to-day guide to building, managing, and sustaining lean organizations, outlines the high-level [...]
The Secrets of Successful Employee Training… Do or Die!
If you could pick only one, what would you say is the single most influential area or process inside of your business that will determine your overall success, or failure, as a company for the next 20 years to come? A lot of things probably come to mind. You might be thinking about your overall [...]
Everything Else I Know About Lean…I Learned in 8th Grade Science
It’s been four years now since I spent that fateful day with my daughter Abbey in her first grade classroom. The result of my day with Abbey was my writing the book Everything I Know about Lean I Learned in First Grade. I am very proud of the book as it was a labor of [...]
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