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		<title>India&#8217;s consumer market drives supply chain growth</title>
		<link>http://www.supplychainview.com/blog/2011/04/indias-consumer-market-drives-supply-chain-growth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Arrand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I’m continuing my analysis of supply chain management in India with some discussion of the economic context. India’s economy is growing very quickly – recently we’ve begun to worry that it’s growing too quickly, running the risk of overheating . But it would be odd if such a rapid transformation of the economy didn’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birth of Lean Review – Free download Taiichi Ohno Chapter</title>
		<link>http://www.supplychainview.com/blog/2009/05/birth-of-lean-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 20:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Arrand</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[product variety]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lengthy post today that’s been in the pipeline for a while. The Lean Enterprise Institute have published an English translation of The Birth of Lean, recounting the experiences of the early Toyota practitioners, and how their experiences shaped what became Lean methods and thinking. The introduction and first chapter are available as a free [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How hackers taught me a lesson in 5S</title>
		<link>http://www.supplychainview.com/blog/2009/03/how-hackers-taught-me-a-lesson-in-5s/</link>
		<comments>http://www.supplychainview.com/blog/2009/03/how-hackers-taught-me-a-lesson-in-5s/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Arrand</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thought Pieces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[5S]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[preventative maintenance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes people tell me that 5S only applies in factories, and if they’ve been exposed to the “inactive banana” school of dim-witted implementation I can’t blame them. But here’s a cautionary tale that might persuade you that the principles – intelligently applied – are sound. Supply Chain View has been “off air” for a while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lean? Or Continuous Improvement?</title>
		<link>http://www.supplychainview.com/blog/2007/10/lean-or-continuous-improvement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.supplychainview.com/blog/2007/10/lean-or-continuous-improvement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Arrand</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[defence logistics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[People Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes people get hung up on semantics. Sometimes it pays to be clear &#8211; very clear. I am currently trying to wade through some waters muddied by misunderstanding and poor use of terminology. My employer has had some good quality experience of Lean (albeit in a fairly small section of its operations) for about four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What level of availability should my warehouse give?</title>
		<link>http://www.supplychainview.com/blog/2007/09/what-level-of-availability-should-my-warehouse-give/</link>
		<comments>http://www.supplychainview.com/blog/2007/09/what-level-of-availability-should-my-warehouse-give/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Arrand</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[availability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DRP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inventory Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supply chain design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warehousing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a question that arises with frightening regularity. Although we generally want both availability and stock turn to continue improving over the long term (and there are various methods of achieving that), nonetheless there are some theoretical limits to those numbers, together with a requirement to decide the availability target for right now. Let’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inspiration from the strangest places: Bukowski and Six Sigma</title>
		<link>http://www.supplychainview.com/blog/2007/09/inspiration-from-the-strangest-places-bukowski-and-six-sigma/</link>
		<comments>http://www.supplychainview.com/blog/2007/09/inspiration-from-the-strangest-places-bukowski-and-six-sigma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Arrand</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thought Pieces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Six Sigma]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You wouldn&#8217;t expect a great lesson in Six Sigma from an alcoholic Beat novelist, would you&#8230;? This is from Charles Bukowski&#8216;s first novel, Post Office, which is a semi-autobiographical account of the author&#8217;s &#8220;career&#8221; with the US Postal Service, delivering and sorting mail. I&#8217;ve mainly paraphrased the episode in order to respect the author&#8217;s copyright. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overstock in pure Pull supply chains</title>
		<link>http://www.supplychainview.com/blog/2007/08/overstock-in-pure-pull-supply-chains/</link>
		<comments>http://www.supplychainview.com/blog/2007/08/overstock-in-pure-pull-supply-chains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Arrand</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Training and Reference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inventory Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lean]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have had a couple of conversations recently that have led me to think about how much overstock we might expect in a Pull supply chain even under fairly idealistic conditions. The first was with a colleague working on a redesign of a warehouse in which a large number of products had stock outside of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online sales grow &#8211; supply chains change</title>
		<link>http://www.supplychainview.com/blog/2007/05/online-sales-grow-supply-chains-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.supplychainview.com/blog/2007/05/online-sales-grow-supply-chains-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 19:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Arrand</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Supply Chain News and Comment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thought Pieces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Distribution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Supply Chain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Retail Supply Chain]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC reported last week that UK online retailing grew by 33.4% to £10.9bn last year. Today the headline was that supermarket Kwik Save was closing 79 stores in a bid to stay afloat. The former story is a well attested trend, and putting it next to the latter is to make a point in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Lean still misunderstood?</title>
		<link>http://www.supplychainview.com/blog/2007/05/is-lean-still-misunderstood/</link>
		<comments>http://www.supplychainview.com/blog/2007/05/is-lean-still-misunderstood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2007 14:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Arrand</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thought Pieces]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a seminar I ran earlier this week for CILT, this is a paraphrasing of what one of the delegates said to me: &#8220;Lean is all about cost reduction. It focuses on the internal processes of the company. It does not think about the customer.&#8221; It is now over 60 years since Toyoda Kiichiro, then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six sigma backlash</title>
		<link>http://www.supplychainview.com/blog/2007/05/six-sigma-backlash/</link>
		<comments>http://www.supplychainview.com/blog/2007/05/six-sigma-backlash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 17:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Arrand</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Six Sigma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is there a developing backlash against Six Sigma? Scott Adams published a Dilbert strip in November last year with the punchline &#8220;Why don&#8217;t we jump on a fad that hasn&#8217;t already been widely discredited?&#8221; (Dilbert strips are now available online for only one month, but Gemba Panta Rei provide a full transcript in a post [...]]]></description>
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