Birth of Lean Review – Free download Taiichi Ohno Chapter
A lengthy post today that’s been in the pipeline for a while. The Lean Enterprise Institute have published an English translation of The Birth of Lean, recounting the experiences of the early Toyota practitioners, and how their experiences shaped what became Lean methods and thinking. The introduction and first chapter are available as a free […]
Categories: Reviews, Thought Pieces.
Tags: Deming, Kanban, Lean, Manufacturing, product variety, Public Sector, pull, standard work, Taiichi Ohno, Taylorism, Toyota, TWI, WIP
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Hard stats, great presentation
Trying to present statistics in an interesting and engaging way is terribly challenging. In the supply chain world, we often have to communicate rather dry numbers that imply significant conclusions for how our business should be run. This has been kicking around the internet for some time now, so apologies if you’ve seen it before. […]
Categories: Supply Chain News and Comment.
Tags: communication, presentation, Six Sigma, statistics
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Office muda on YouTube
It’s a classic technique: follow an order from receipt to fulfilment. Shapiro, Rangan and Sviokla wrote an influential article on the subject in HBR in 1992 (Staple yourself to an order). Now, with more humour, a YouTube version. An outfit called Business Process Excellence in the US have posted an 8 minute animation on the […]
Categories: Supply Chain Resources, Training and Reference.
Tags: Audrey Order, Lean, muda, office, Service Sector, waste
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Define “Supply Chain Management”…
Here’s a great set of half a dozen slides that does just that. The use of freely available images is very neat, and the definition is concise but descriptive. Thanks to my colleague Paul James who made this available via his Linkedin page. Paul acknowledges his sources (a textbook I couldn’t track down – Ganesham […]
Categories: Supply Chain Resources.
Tags: definition, powerpoint, Supply Chain, supply chain management
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How hackers taught me a lesson in 5S
Sometimes people tell me that 5S only applies in factories, and if they’ve been exposed to the “inactive banana” school of dim-witted implementation I can’t blame them. But here’s a cautionary tale that might persuade you that the principles – intelligently applied – are sound. Supply Chain View has been “off air” for a while […]
Categories: Thought Pieces.
Tags: 5S, Lean, preventative maintenance, quality, Technology
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Free Excel files for Six Sigma and business statistics
I enjoy making useful things freely available on Supply Chain View, so it’s good to find other people doing the same thing. There are 57 useful business statistics Excel files to download from the McGraw Hill website (to accompany the book Complete Business Statistics by Aczel and Sounderpandian). Among others, there are calculations for testing […]
Categories: Supply Chain Resources, Training and Reference.
Tags: control chart, excel, free resources, Six Sigma, SPC, statistics
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Inventory managagement 101 – How reorder point control works
This is basic stuff, but as usual there is a lack of clear and concise explanations of this on the web. It is also very important, as most methods of inventory control can be reexpressed as some form of reorder point method. Hence this simple introduction. I have also prepared a Reference Sheet that summarises […]
Categories: Supply Chain 101, Supply Chain Resources, Training and Reference.
Tags: excel, Inventory Management, Kanban, Manufacturing, reorder point control, ROP, supply chain management
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50 ways to make your warehouse seem bigger
There’s a commercial profile of Aricia Limited in this month’s Logistics and Transport Focus – I’d not heard of them, but it appears to be a micro-consultancy in the supply chain field, run by Kirsten Tisdale who wrote the Focus article. Kirsten’s website has a one-page document available to download entitled 50 ways to make […]
Categories: Supply Chain Resources.
Tags: operational improvement, operations, space, storage, supply chain management, Warehousing
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More on the Nargis air operation in Logistics and Transport Focus
I forgot to mention in my post yesterday about last week’s HELP Forum meeting that Mike Whiting has also written about the air operation during Nargis, both the air-bridge from Bangkok and the helicopter operation in-country. Mike was OiC for Aviation for the Logs Cluster, so this is an authoritative account. You can find his […]
Categories: Supply Chain News and Comment.
Tags: CILT, Distribution, HELP Forum, Humanitarian Logistics
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Cyclone Nargis and the Sichuan earthquake: emergency logistics coordination and the politics of paperwork
The CILT‘s Humanitarian and Emergencies Logistics Professionals (HELP) Forum met again on Tuesday last week (28 Oct 2008). It was another interesting session, so I thought I would post a brief report (with a long title). My apologies if I have mangled any of the following in transcribing my notes. For those that don’t know, […]
Categories: Supply Chain News and Comment.
Tags: Agility, CILT, Cyclone Nargis, disaster relief, Global Logistics Cluster, HELP Forum, Humanitarian Logistics, Logistics Emergency Teams, Save the Children, Sichuan earthquake, tsunami
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