Archive for 'Training and Reference'
Teach Yourself Supply Chain Management in Ten Years
(with apologies to Peter Norvig) Some time ago, the wise and well-respected computer scientist Peter Norvig wrote an article called “Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years”. I read it recently and found it so full of good sense I couldn’t resist taking the spirit of Norvig’s thoughts and applying them to supply chain management. Norvig’s […]
Categories: Supply Chain News and Comment, Training and Reference.
Tags: CILT, numeracy, People Management, supply chain management, Young Professionals
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LOG: Logistics Operations Guide for humanitarian logisticians
Here is something very useful for humanitarian logisticians: the Logistics Operations Guide, or LOG for short, brought to you by the Logistics Cluster. But not only is it useful for those in the humanitarian sector, it is an excellent model for the clear communication of logistics know-how: succint, practical and well-referenced. Click here to go […]
Categories: Supply Chain News and Comment, Supply Chain Resources, Training and Reference.
Tags: education, Humanitarian Logistics, Supply Chain
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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
Comments: 1
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
Comments: 4
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
Comments: 6
10 ways to reduce inventory and improve service – part 2
This is the second part of a two-part post. Part 1 was posted last week. 6. Optimise stock over the range The same investment in stock can produce better or worse levels of availability. This is intuitively obvious if we think of some reductio ad absurdum examples: all of our stock invested in a single […]
Categories: Training and Reference.
Tags: Forecasting, Inventory Management, Lean, Retail Supply Chain
Comments: 2
10 ways to reduce inventory and improve service – part 1
This was prompted by a question on the CILT’s eDiscussion forum. I thought the topic deserved a little more room for explanation, so here are my top ten tactics for simultaneous inventory reduction and service improvement. I have divided this into two posts – five tactics today, the next five coming up in part 2. […]
Categories: Training and Reference.
Tags: Forecasting, Inventory Management, Lean, Retail Supply Chain
Comments: 5
Overstock in pure Pull supply chains
I have had a couple of conversations recently that have led me to think about how much overstock we might expect in a Pull supply chain even under fairly idealistic conditions. The first was with a colleague working on a redesign of a warehouse in which a large number of products had stock outside of […]
Categories: Thought Pieces, Training and Reference.
Tags: Inventory Management, Lean, Six Sigma
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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
Comments: 2
Certificate in Humanitarian Logistics: positive comments from candidates
In my report of the CILT HELP Forum I mentioned in passing the Certificate in Humanitarian Logistics. Yesterday the latest edition of CILTWorld dropped through my letterbox and I was delighted to see a 2-page spread on the qualification. Charles Muchiri – Head of Warehousing for the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross and […]
Categories: Supply Chain News and Comment, Training and Reference.
Tags: Humanitarian Logistics
Comments: 1