The Lean Logistics Blog

“Who’s going to do it?…..You I guess” – Historical LeanCor Quote As we ramp up after the holiday break, many people will move into new and challenges roles.  A few weeks ago I was introduced to a new role of project managing various groups (internal and external) for a key customer of LeanCor.   As I […]

March 21-22, 2013 | Florence, KY Keeping with the true spirit of PDCA, we have improved this workshop to include additional gemba time – both in the Operations Center and now at a Lean Fulfillment Center warehouse! Modeled after the Shingo- award winning workbook Building a Lean Fulfillment Stream, this dynamic and highly interactive workshop teaches […]

We’ve all heard it, we’ve all even tried it, but what exactly is it? “Kaizen (改善): Japanese for “improvement” or “change for the better.” “Kaizen is a Japanese word constructed from two ideographs, the first of which represents change and the second goodness or virtue. Kaizen is commonly used to indicate the long-term betterment of […]

Faced with long lead times and high logistics costs? Looking to reduce waste and increase your profitability?  The Lean Supply Chain Practitioner Course At Laurier Executive Development Centre Laurier Executive Development Centre and LeanCor have partnered to bring you a three-day certificate course of hands-on, interactive learning, teaching you how to extend lean beyond the […]

I recently spent a considerable amount of time  value stream mapping and brainstorming around issues with supplier shipping at a large manufacturing firm.  Sometimes the supplier would ship late, and the plant wouldn’t know until too late.  Many times the supplier would ship early, causing system grief and excess inventory. After exhaustive thinking we decided […]

We hear and learn about Lean day by day and we tend to think that we really understand the basic principles. Continuous improvement, river of waste, visual management, etc. We learn, process, and eventually implement these theories in our everyday life.  But is it really so? Are we really lean in all aspects of our […]

If you’re a student of lean thinking,  you have no doubt encountered many Japanese terms, phrases, and concepts.  Due to the success and proliferation of books on the Toyota Production System, many lean terms have become “household words” in operations and logistics. One doesn’t have to be a linguist to appreciate the beauty, imagery and […]

  As a brand new employee and person to lean, I was a little intimidated during my first week of work at a “lean enterprise.”  I came to LeanCor with a marketing and sales educational background and non-profit career experience where lean thinking wasn’t part of everyday discussion.  I thought, “why is lean such a […]

The constant drive of process improvement is the key to a successful organization. Many organizations fail to succeed because they place this accountability on leaders instead of people actually doing the work. As a company, we need to build the culture of continuous improvement bottom up, from the most valuable areas of the organization – […]