If you know the Origin of Lean then you the relationship between Lean and Toyota. In fact, Lean is modeled after Toyota Production System. And, if you want to learn Toyota Production System, you must at least understand how their they run their production. I am lucky to have the opportunity to visit one of [...]
See for yourself an example of one piece flow in an job shop environment. Can you identify which operation is the bottleneck area and what are the wastes still exist in this operation? I would love to hear your comments on how you can help to continuous improvement this operation.
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Is Toyota really good? And, why does so many companies want to benchmark after Toyota? Below is a news clip about the Toyota Way. Check it out?
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How to show an Enterprise is a Lean Mean Machine? Below is the Jim Womack interviewed in India, let’s listen to him:
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Enviroscapes Lean Management using the Lean Transformation Initiative. Ohio Landscaping Company using lean management to fine tune their operations and run a leaner, more efficient work process that identifies and eliminates the redundant, the wasteful and the unnecessary.
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Find out what are the Top 20 Supply Chain Management softwares in 2009 here by clicking the following picture.
The software that are included in this category include supply chain planning and network design (SCP) applications as well as supply chain execution solutions like enterprise resource planning (ERP), warehouse management (WMS), manufacturing execution (MES) and transportation [...]
Andrew Cheah is giving talk on title: Best Practices In Stock Management And How To Not Get Stuck With Excess Inventory at conference below:
Strategic Logistics, Warehousing And Distribution Conference
Date : 17th August 2009
Time: 8.00 am to 5.00pm
Venue : Crowne Plaza Mutiara Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Even though Lean Management has evolved from manufacturing industry but today it is widely practiced in a lot of other areas such as sale, customer service, finance, project management, and many more. Here’s some slides on Lean Management in Sales and Customer Service:
Lean Management in Sales, Service and Marketing
If you are a Sales Manager, start [...]
Can cafes or retail services adopts Lean in their operations? Check out the below link to check out on how Starbucks adopting Lean Management in improving its bottomline.
Latest Starbucks Buzzword: ‘Lean’ Japanese Techniques
Starbucks reported a solid third quarter. On the company?s earnings conference call, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz said:
“The majority of cost reductions we?ve achieved [...]
Is Skype going to be shut down? I hope not. This is one of the most effective tool that I use whenever I travel abroad to communicate with my colleagues, prospects, family, etc. Especially when I am using Skype over my iPhone which is so convenient like using a cell phone.
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