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Ambitious Growth Plans? Your Customers Will Right-Size You

The Lean Thinker

The business literature is full of examples of this – companies who could not keep up with their own success, their performance deteriorates and, well, many of them go out of business. Starry-eyed executives often look only at the financial models, maybe equipment capacity, and skip over the operational aspects of their due diligence.

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“95 Thesis” on Kaizen Events and TPS

The Lean Thinker

Our operating system) is, by our own model, the “Operational Excellence” pillar of (our business system). Thus, focusing on implementing the tools of TPS (takt time, flow, pull, etc) outside of the immediate response and problem solving context is an exercise which expends energy and gains very little sustainable change.

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Vendor Managed Inventory Model for Supply Chain Cost Reductions

GlobalTranz

Below I will outline how a vendor managed inventory model, in conjunction with reverse marketing, value analysis, and collaboration will achieve supply chain cost reductions. Vendor Managed Inventory Model for Supply Chain Cost Reductions. This example, the pencil, is already a high value item). What is Value Analysis?

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What are Reverse Logistics?

Logistics Bureau

Looking to real-life examples for inspiration, we can ask, ‘Who does reverse logistics well?’ ’ Companies like Sears, Dell, and Zappos are often pointed to as models to follow for reverse logistics. IT vendor Dell, for example, handles requests for returns via its support organisation.

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Being Adaptive Drives Resiliency and Margins in Collaborative Supply Chain Networks (CSCN)

Logistics Viewpoints

Top Challenges Faced by Companies: Customer Preferences: Example: An online fashion retailer faces the challenge of constantly changing customer preferences. Supply side shifts: Example: A global coffee manufacturer experiences disruptions due to a natural disaster affecting one of its key suppliers in Brazil due to dry weather.

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What Is Your Target Story?

The Lean Thinker

If you are in R&D this is an even more direct application back to Menlo’s model. Then develop training experiences and exercises that they believe will allow the learner to pass the test. As in the example above, a target condition should also be testable. Training = Giving People Ability.

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Reimagining Logistics: Focusing on What’s Ahead, Not What Happened

Logistics Viewpoints

This is not a continuous improvement exercise, but a matter of survival as greater unpredictability prevails in our markets, continually taxing resources, and challenging forecast accuracy on both the demand and supply sides. There is no question that every industry now functions in a different environment with different economic conditions.