Lean Supply Chain: Collected Practices & Cases

  • 1h 44m
  • Productivity Press Development Team
  • CRC Press
  • 2006

Applying lean to the supply chain is a hot topic. While lean operations can produce significant benefits to an organization, the greatest benefits will not be realized unless lean is extended beyond the organization to involve both suppliers and customers.

Lean Supply Chain: Collected Practices and Cases provides a variety of case studies taken from articles previously published in Lean Manufacturing Advisor -- the monthly newsletter by Productivity Press.

Highlights include:

  • Practical, in-depth descriptions of lean supply chain issues - including supply chain strategy -- most of which have not been described in other publications, written in a conversational, easy-to-read style.
  • A large quantity of case studies unavailable from any other single source.
  • Real-world information about the practical issues of managing the lean supply chain and working with supply chain partners.
  • Articles are categorized in three areas -- Supply Chain Strategies, Building Partnerships, and Improving Distribution - for easy reference.

In this Book

  • Lean Supply Chain—Collected Practices & Cases
  • Introduction
  • Expanding an Initiative Beyond Your Enterprise
  • Reducing Supply Chain Complexity
  • In a Race Against Time, adidas Leaps Forward
  • A New Paradigm Supports U.S. Troops
  • Report—Lean Afghan Logistics Were Better Than Desert Storm
  • Customers—and Suppliers—Offer Tips for Working With Suppliers
  • 4 Steps for Deploying Lean “Blueprint” Through the Supply Chain
  • A New Metric Measures Suppliers
  • Lean Supply Chain Effort Is Built On Research, Planning & Structure
  • Varied Approaches Help Make Supply Chain Initiatives Work
  • Tatoos and Attitude Figure in Supply Chain Conversion
  • Challenge for Supplier Program Is Sustaining Lean Improvements
  • Improving Customers Creates Partners
  • Coping With Variability is Key To Improving Retail Processes
  • Continuous Flow in the Warehouse
  • At GM, Parts Distribution Centers Can Be Lean, Too
  • Warehouse Sets a Faster Pace
  • Error-Proofing Warehouse Picking
  • Lean Leads to Returnable Containers
  • Lean Philosophy Drives Trucking Company
  • For a Trucking Company, It’s Not About Trucks Anymore
  • Citations
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