End-to-End Lean Management: A Guide to Complete Supply Chain Improvement
End-to-End Lean Management: A Guide to Complete Supply Chain Improvement
Featuring an expansive set of tools, techniques, and performance measures, this unique book shows how to apply the lean philosophy across the entire supply chain, from suppliers, to transportation and operations, through distribution to customers. Managers who are under constant pressure to find new sources of competitive advantage and to demonstrate performance improvements will find End-to-End Lean Management to be a timely and necessary resource.
KEY FEATURES:
– Describes a broad array of waste that affects all supply chains and shows how to make lean performance improvement a reality across your entire supply chain
– Identifies nine key myths and realities of lean and provides an updated, integrated, and holistic view of lean that applies to service organizations, non-profit institutions, government, and manufacturers
– Presents valuable tools and techniques along with a comprehensive set of lean performance measures to support your end-to-end lean journey
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End-to-End Lean Management,
As an Information Systems Consultant, I work with a wide variety of medium sized manufacturing firms who are attempting to get their arms around this “Lean Manufacturing” topic while looking for practical performance measures that align with the Lean model. I have found Trent’s Lean-to-Lean book to be a great resource that is right on point in this regard!! By using recognizable manufacturers and processes in his book, Trent covers all the key “lean” components, their systems implications and the benefits companies can realize by adopting the lean “lean” practices…including optimization….It is a must read for Information Systems Consultants. DS Praedin, President of DSP Consulting, Inc.
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“End-to-End Lean Management” is an excellent read and details the methodologies that firms constantly strive for in their manufacturing operations. Bob incorporates real life examples to illustrate his points of lean operations. He proves that LEAN is not just applicable to the workplace, but also for the home. From charity candle-making to the choreographing of NASCAR pit crews, he explains and details key lean objectives, including standardization, flow, optimization, and waste elimination. He also discusses the importance of the customer-supplier relationships as being integral to the successes of LEAN. Because the book is an easy read it is difficult to put down. Since reading it, I have referenced it a number of times already in my own job, so it is applicable and current. Bob’s experience in industry gives him credibilty and makes this book necessary for any manufacturing operation.
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|If you can’t do lean management after reading this book, you just can’t do it,
The modern manager has two options with regard to adopting the principles of lean management. They can ignore it and make the success of their organization unlikely or they can adopt it and make the success of their organization more likely. Lean management is not a magic wand that will suddenly make everything in your organizational world right; it is based on taking hard, honest and reasonable looks at the ways you do everything in your business. Some consider it to be an extreme effort to remove waste from your processes, but that is only a partial explanation of what lean management is. It is a process where you go through everything you do, examining what you do, what others do for you and determining if any step can be eliminated, shortened, economically outsourced or even economically insourced.
As you perform your analysis, one of the most significant errors that you need to avoid is the pseudo-savings of a potential change. On first analysis, a change may provide savings, usually on the short term. However, that is only temporary, over time the consequences of the change leads to an increase in costs that may dwarf the savings.
All of the mindset principles that first need to be installed before you can begin an effective evaluation of moving down the lean path are described and explained in this book. Furthermore, there are also examples of situations in the realm of pseudo-savings. Historically accurate case studies are presented in detail covering several different industries.
No book can provide examples of lean management principles that are directly applicable to more than a minority of business situations. However, that in no way means that any manager will fail to find valuable pearls of lean wisdom here. Applying lean management techniques is more of a generalized mindset rather than a specific one, all that you need to do is supply the wisdom to apply it to your situation. If you cannot do that, then you are in the wrong line of work.
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