Kimberly Clark – Lean Logistics June 25‚ 2012 Executive Summary Organizations in today’s economy often include cost control or reduction in their overall strategies. Logistics is an area of increasing focus where internal and external costs affect the margins and customer demands require excellence of service. In distribution‚ selective‚ exclusive and intensive are three primary channels in which an organization must determine the best option in relation
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DIN ROMÂNIA B&L Business & Leadership Nr. 2 - 2010‚ pp. 33-40 ISSN 2069-4814 DESIGNER LEAN PRODUCTION PROCESSES AND 5S Authors: Amalia Venera Todoru ‚ Doru Cîrnu Abstract: One of the challenges faced by businesses today is the combined pressure to reduce price and to provide an increased a variety of options at lower volumes. This paper will present what we call 5S method as part of the Lean philosophy. It will explain how to introduce this concept and how can it be adapted in our institutions
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Supply Chain Management in the Textiles and Clothing Industry: Case of Four UK based Companies Introduction Textiles and apparel is a major sector for both the industrialised and the lesser developed economies‚ contributing both to wealth generation and employment. The sector represents a key part of employment in Europe‚ and world-wide‚ and in Europe alone employs in excess of two million people. Turnover for 2000 was Euro 198 billion. The European industry sector is dominated by large numbers of
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Although its origins are in manufacturing‚ Lean has been increasingly applied to a wide variety of settings‚ including Higher education with excellent success (Balzer‚ 2010). Lean higher education is the adaptation of Lean thinking to higher education‚ both in administration (admissions‚ add/drop‚ purchasing‚ facilities‚ hiring‚ budgeting) and academic activities (course design and teaching‚improving degree programs‚student feedback‚ handling of assignments). Comm and Mathaisel (2003) were among
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Obligation - The lean manufacturing process is implemented in the bank for day to day processing level‚ but it has to start at‚ and be plainly strengthened by top management. For example‚ the Branch manager/Asst. Manager should be involved in leading some Kaizen events. An ongoing 20% advance in productivity does not come about by itself. Management must be involved and personally invested in the outcomes. Top organisation should expect their personal promise to exceed one year before the process
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How to Profit From “Lean Advertising” Author: Thales Teixeira Source: Harvard Business Review In this article‚ Harvard Professor‚ Thales Teixeira discusses a new advertising phenomenon‚ “Lean advertising”. By definition anything defined as lean‚ focuses on elimination of waste. The theory is that this should lead to improved quality and reduced costs. In terms of advertising it should mean finding simpler and cheaper ways of communicating what a company wishes to sell‚ in this case online video
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developing a value stream to eliminate all waste‚ including time‚ and to ensure a level schedule. Agility means using market knowledge and a virtual corporation to exploit profitable opportunities in a volatile marketplace. Leagile is the combination of the lean and agile paradigms within a total supply chain strategy by positioning the decoupling point so as to best suit the need for responding to a volatile demand downstream yet providing level scheduling upstream from the marketplace. The decoupling point
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individuals who could transition their skills from athleticism into observation and skill under pressure in a competition. The pit crew team is much like the book we are reading in class where a cell in a manufacturing company works like this team to lean out their process and gain throughput but also cut down Muda or waste and improve cycle time. Crews have been known to train hard in the off-season over the winter. Team members lose weight and get physically fitter in the process just to obtain their
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LEAN & GREEN FACTORY @ McKinsey Capability Center Atlanta Turning resource productivity and continuous operations into competitive advantage The efficiency imperative Energy is already the single largest indirect cost in many industries. And its price is only going up. To deliver the next step in energy and resource productivity‚ companies will need to make broad and deep changes across their operations. Does your organization have the capabilities to make that happen? LEAN
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Lean Manufacturing and the Toyota Production System The use of the term "Lean"‚ in a business or manufacturing environment‚ describes a philosophy that incorporates a collection of tools and techniques into the business processes to optimize time‚ human resources‚ assets‚ and productivity‚ while improving the quality level of products and services to their customers. Becoming "Lean" is a commitment to a process and a tremendous learning experience should you attempt to implement Lean principles and
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