Consider this excerpt from a recent article on The Big Picture in Industry Week: We reviewed several conveyor delivery systems and settled on cutting-edge technology. It eliminated so many positions that the payback was very quick. Parts were routed through the department and into a sorting area to be automatically picked … we [...]
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As clarified by Jamie Flinchbaugh of the Lean Learning Center in a recent Industry Week article on problem-solving through the lean lens, lean is about problem solving. It is the never ending process of solving the problem that prevents us from getting to the ideal state where every need is met on time and [...]
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Recently, Supply and Demand Executive published an article called The Three Things You Need to Get Right in Your Extended Value Chain by Steve Mehltretter and Vadim Kapsutin which suggested that there are only three critical operational resources that businesses need to balance and get “right” in order to succeed: capacity [...]
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The EE Times ran a great article by Romit Dey and Manoj K. Singh last month on Demand Shaping and how it aligns customer trends with supply. But I have to ask, is it really “demand shaping” or is it more “demand sensing”. Is not “demand shaping” what marketing and advertising does? [...]
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A while back, the Supply Chain Management Review ran an article entitled Lean: The Antidote to Cost and Variation that focussed on lean as a lever to do just that because it can reduce waste and improve customer service. The article identified eight enablers of lean distribution in global supply chains that tie [...]
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With at least eighteen confirmed bloggers and guest bloggers, the big question was, who will go first? Well, I’m happy to report that Lisa Reisman, Managing Director of Aptium Global Inc, has volunteered to go first. Today, I’m pleased to present her “Top Three”.
Maximizing the Savings Potential of Global Sourcing Strategies
In the [...]
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Last week at Aptium Global’s private 10 Ways to Significantly Improve EBITDA and Reduce Operational Risk in Your Portfolio Companies, Lisa Reisman, Mark Pruitt, and Ara Surenian presented ten real-world examples of cost reduction and EBITDA improvement in small and middle market operations that proved that Lean can be used to save significant amounts of [...]
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Regular readers of this blog will remember that I’ve mentioned Aptium Global a few times, chronicled one of their success stories in Tuesday’s Lean Services post (with another hitting the blog sphere tomorrow),and ran a great guest post on Quantifying Quality in Lean Sourcing Initiatives by founder and principal Lisa Reisman. Aptium Global [...]
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Last week at Aptium Global’s private 10 Ways to Significantly Improve EBITDA and Reduce Operational Risk in Your Portfolio Companies, Lisa Reisman, Mark Pruitt, and Ara Surenian presented ten real-world examples of cost reduction and EBITDA improvement in small and middle market operations that proved that Lean can be used to save significant amounts of [...]
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Today I’d like to welcome guest contributor Lisa Reisman, the Managing Director of Aptium Global, a direct materials advisory sourcing advisory firm. Lisa Reisman can be reached by email at lreisman<at>aptiumglobal<dot>com.
I’m sure that a good number of readers of this blog are familiar with the basic concepts of lean manufacturing, which is all [...]
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