Tag: Lean
Is Lean still misunderstood?
At a seminar I ran earlier this week for CILT, this is a paraphrasing of what one of the delegates said to me: “Lean is all about cost reduction. It focuses on the internal processes of the company. It does not think about the customer.” It is now over 60 years since Toyoda Kiichiro, then […]
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Tags: Lean
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Online summary of Taiichi Ohno’s Gemba Keiei
This has been on the web for some time but I’ve only just come across it. Gemba Panta Rei is a Lean weblog that consultants Gemba have been posting since 2003. Gemba’s press are about to publish a translation of Taiichi Ohno’s Gemba Keiei, or Workplace Management. This is one of the three books he […]
Categories: Supply Chain Resources.
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Lean and inventory misconceptions
I was interested to find an article in this month’s Logistics & Transport Focus headed “No more lean times: why inventory is not waste and warehouses add value”. The author, Steve Sordy, has chosen a title that is a kind of teasing of the more dogmatic of lean devotees – British culture has little patience […]
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Tags: distribution centre, Inventory Management, Kanban, Lean, Little's Law, pull, Warehousing, waste, Womack & Jones
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