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Expert Strategies for Improving Supply Chain and Logistics Performance Using LeanThis practical guide reveals how to identify and eliminate waste in your organization's supply chain and logistics function. Lean Supply Chain and Logistics Management provides explanations of both basic and advanced Lean tools, as well as specific Lean implementation opportunities. The book then describes a Lean implementation methodology with critical success factors. Real-world examples and case studies demonstrate how to effectively use this powerful strategy to realize significant, long-term improvements and bottom-line savings.
COVERAGE INCLUDES:
* Using Lean to energize your supply chain * The eight wastes * Lean opportunities and JIT in supply chain and logistics * Lean tools and warehouse * Global lean supply chain and logistics * Lean opportunity assessment, value stream mapping, and Kaizen event management * Best-in-class use of technology with Lean * Metrics and measurement * Education and training
Valuable training slides are available for download.
Author Notes
Paul Myerson has been a successful change catalyst for a variety of clients and organizations of all sizes. He has more than 25 years of experience in supply chain strategies, systems, and operations that have resulted in bottom-line improvements for companies such as General Electric, Unilever, and Church and Dwight (Arm & Hammer). Myerson holds an MBA in Physical Distribution from Temple University and a BS in Logistics from The Pennsylvania State University. He is currently Managing Partner at Logistics Planning Associates, LLC, a supply chain planning software and consulting business (www.psiplanner.com). Myerson serves as an adjunct professor at several universities, including Kean University and New Jersey City University. He is the author of a Windows-based Supply Chain Planning software, and co-author of a new Lean supply chain and logistics management simulation training game by ENNA.
Table of Contents
| Chapter 1 Introduction - Using Lean to Energize your Supply Chain |
| Chapter 2 Historical Perspective - From Lean Manufacturing to Lean Enterprise |
| The Need for Speed |
| Chapter 3 8 Wastes - What, a Waste? "Value Added" vs. "Non-Value Added" activities from the customer perspective |
| The 8 wastes and how they apply to SCM |
| Chapter 4 Lean Opportunities and Applications in Supply Chain & Logistics Management - The Forest for the Trees |
| Where Lean applies in today's Supply Chain & Logistics Management areas |
| Chapter 5 Basic Lean Tools - You Can't Build a House without a Solid Foundation |
| Universal concepts and tools |
| How they work in the SCM environment |
| How to use the tools. Standardized Work |
| 5S - Workplace Organization |
| Visual Workplace |
| Layout |
| Chapter 6 Advanced Lean Tools - It's Not Rocket Science |
| Applicable advanced Lean tools and how they can work in the SCM environment examples |
| How to use the tools |
| Batch size reduction and Quick Changeover |
| Quality at the Source |
| Point of Use Storage, Pull/Kanbans (JIT), Workcells and TPM |
| Chapter 7 JIT in Supply Chain and Logistics - This JIT's Good |
| Chapter 8 Lean Warehouse - Low-Hanging Fruit |
| Chapter 9 Lean Global Supply Chain and Logistics - The Long and Winding "Road" |
| Chapter 10 Keys to Success - The Patient Gardener |
| Lean Culture and Team-based Continuous Improvement |
| Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process and its relation to Lean SC & Logistics |
| Chapter 11 Getting Started - Lean Forward |
| Value Stream Mapping |
| Kaizen Events |
| Chapter 12 Lean and Technology - Why Can't We All Just Get Along? |
| Chapter 13 Beyond the Four Walls - I Can See Clearly Now |
| Chapter 14 Metrics and Measurement - So, How Am I Doing? |
| Appendix A - Lean SC & Logistics Case Studies |
| Appendix B - Lean SC & Logistics Excel Assessment |
