The Lean Logistics Blog

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 […]

The manufacturing company at which I work on-site recently made a change that has me fired up.  They didn’t cut back on parking spaces, increase lead time on parts, increase the sourcing of material from overseas suppliers, or create an unsafe work environment… …They changed the paper towel dispenser in the bathrooms! We used to […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Waterloo, ON – March 1, 2012 – Third-Party Logistics Provider (3PL) LeanCor and the Laurier Executive Development Centre have added two key topics to the Lean Supply Chain Practitioner course being held April 16-19: Communication for Results and Change Management. In addition to gaining the skills necessary to lead their organization’s supply […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Call them silos, stove pipes or departmental barriers, natural forces create them and detrimental forces seem to maintain them. And true supply chain management cannot be realized until they are eradicated Why do so many departmental barriers continue to exist given the benefits afforded by best practices in supply chain management? More importantly, what can […]