Archive for 'Reviews'
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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Wallace Hopp’s Supply Chain Science NO LONGER available as free download (sorry)
UPDATE 20/03/08: Since I wrote this post, Hopp has published a print version of the book with McGraw-Hill and moved from Northwestern to the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. As a result, the download that was available free from the Northwestern website is no longer available. Apologies to anyone who has […]
Categories: Reviews, Supply Chain Resources, Training and Reference.
Tags: Forecasting, Inventory Management
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Forecasting intermittent demand for spare parts – review of JORS paper
I have just read a paper published in the Jan 07 edition of the Journal of the Operational Research Society (JORS) entitled “A new approach of forecasting intermittent demand for spare parts inventories in the process industries”. The authors – ZS Hua, B Zhang, J Yang and DS Tang from the University of Science and […]
Categories: Reviews.
Tags: Forecasting
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