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Measuring the Bottom Line: How to Calculate a Lean Fulfillment Stream’s ROI
“There is no line item on my balance sheet for ‘lean.” – Paul Kaufman, CFO, Slumberland Furniture. I am one of the lucky lean logistics managers on-site at my customer’s facility. My customer intuitively (From the President to the CFO) understands the value of improving the Lean Fulfillment Stream. At LeanCor, however, it’s very important [...]
LeanCor and Georgia Tech Kicking Off 2012 With Lean Supply Chain Certificate Series, Free Webinars
Building on the success of their first two years, LeanCor and the Georgia Tech Supply Chain & Logistics Institute will continue the Lean Supply Chain Professional Certificate Program this March. Course 1: Building the Lean Supply Chain Problem Solver: March 13-15, 2012, September 18-20, 2012 Course 2: Building the Lean Supply Chain Professional: April 10-12, [...]
Simplifying Landed Cost Modeling Series Part 3: Outputs & Interface
One of the most difficult aspects of creating our cost models can be the design of the outputs and the user interface. What to display on the outputs, how to display it, and how the user affects these outputs can make or break the effectiveness of your cost model. It is easy to make these [...]
Building a Lean Fulfillment Stream Wins Shingo Research Award!
Building a Lean Fulfillment Stream has won the The Shingo Research and Professional Publications Award! The award is given to authors for their writing on operational excellence and promote and recognizes new knowledge and understanding. Awards are given in four categories: (1) books (monographs), (2) published articles, (3) case studies, and (4) applied publications/multimedia programs. [...]
The Logistics Bridge Model
Both Lean and Six Sigma lend distinctive disciplines and tools to supply chain management and logistics. Using these disciplines and tools will allow an organization to uncover and deal with wastes and inefficiencies. Although Lean and Six Sigma tools are very powerful, we need to remember that for Lean and Six Sigma to work in [...]
Lean Assembly: A New Hire’s Appreciation For Poka-Yoke
For the past few weeks, I have been working on a project where I learn automotive processes in order to document standard work so that each activity is precisely described by motion, time, task sequence, and minimum inventory required to conduct the activity. The only problem is that I have never worked on an automotive [...]
The Yokoten Pay-Off
I’ve always taken to the basic Chinese proverb of: “I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand. “ It’s no surprise that even though many lean concepts are simple to comprehend and can be practiced in our everyday lives, it can be painstaking to sustain these practices. It’s [...]
Lean Logistics Best Practice: Trailer Audits
I am usually extremely disciplined in creating and executing a plan. However, I tend to fail to take a step back and evaluate how the execution really went. If no one yells “fire,” I assume that everything went perfectly (after all, no one said otherwise). At LeanCor we spend several weeks at a time creating, [...]
New: A Lean Supply Chain Workshop At The Gemba
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 [...]
Developing The Lean Warehouse: Start With The Waste
The ultimate goal of lean thinking is to reduce our reliance on warehousing. However, the fact remains that warehousing and distribution center management is necessary because of extended lead times and unbalanced business process connections. Consequently, we want to manage warehousing as efficiently as possible. To accomplish this goal, we must bring lean principles into [...]
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