The Lean Logistics Blog

The people in your organization are the secret keys to improving your businesses bottom line results. Many of us, including myself, have gone to a lean six sigma training course to learn the tools necessary to improve our organization, and although this is great and we learned a lot of valuable tools, we need to […]

“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 […]

In my time spent onsite with the customer implementing PFEP (Plan-For-Every-Part) and advanced material flow techniques, I often was pulled into other projects. One of these projects was an effort to increase productivity (labor effectiveness, specifically) in a series of sub-assemblies. We were working on a single, mixed-model assembly line which was scheduled with a […]

  We’re launching a new video series on exploring lean! In this first episode, LeanCor’s Online Training Manager Julia Kirby interviews Robert Martichenko on Lean Leadership – Purpose and Value Alignment.   Enjoy!

Have you ever taken a tour of a manufacturing plant or corporate office?  Most of you probably have. But have you ever been behind the scenes in planning a tour?  A tour is a complex set of processes that are derived to give the customer a specific experience. The question then becomes, how do we offer […]

I’ve been working in the Logistics industry for the better part of a decade now, and I’ve finally been able to identify the arch nemesis of lean practice.  This adversary is the least visible, yet in my opinion, the largest threat to the progression of our practice – the enemy of lean is the superhero. […]

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 […]

I recently read Jim Womack’s Gemba Walks, which has been one of my personal favorite books to date.  Upon completion, I began to reflect on my own many gemba walks, both those in my professional career and as a consumer. As someone with a passion for lean and customer service, I quickly thought of a […]

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 […]