Supply Chain View

UPDATE 20/03/08: Since I wrote this post, Hopp has published a print version of the book with McGraw-Hill and moved from Northwestern to the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. As a result, the download that was available free from the Northwestern website is no longer available. Apologies to anyone who has [...]

On the Scottish Executive website I have just come across a useful report examining the implementation of Lean in the public sector. Politicians of all colours would love the administration of public services to be more efficient. Cost reductions can pay for pet projects, enhanced services or tax cuts. In the UK, the public has [...]

The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport have just launched a collection of discussion boards on their website. My own work in setting up a discussion board on this site for CILT’s Humanitarian and Emergencies Logistics Professionals (HELP) Forum went some way to prompting the Institute to set up the boards. It looks like they [...]

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 [...]

Let’s face it, we never think our forecasts are accurate enough. We suspect there must be a better way out there. Often this is down to the simple fact that forecasting is never precise. How can it be? I often think that one of the most important eureka moments for a supply chain professional is [...]

Perhaps you’ve arrived here looking for the Humanitarian Emergencies Logistics Professionals forum (HELP). If so, you may be confused. The forum can be found at help.supplychainview.com The Supply Chain View blog was launched Nov 2006. Please check back for comment and views on supply chain issues, or subscribe to the RSS feeds.