Tag: waste
Office muda on YouTube
It’s a classic technique: follow an order from receipt to fulfilment. Shapiro, Rangan and Sviokla wrote an influential article on the subject in HBR in 1992 (Staple yourself to an order). Now, with more humour, a YouTube version. An outfit called Business Process Excellence in the US have posted an 8 minute animation on the […]
Categories: Supply Chain Resources, Training and Reference.
Tags: Audrey Order, Lean, muda, office, Service Sector, waste
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Lean and inventory misconceptions
I was interested to find an article in this month’s Logistics & Transport Focus headed “No more lean times: why inventory is not waste and warehouses add value”. The author, Steve Sordy, has chosen a title that is a kind of teasing of the more dogmatic of lean devotees – British culture has little patience […]
Categories: Thought Pieces.
Tags: distribution centre, Inventory Management, Kanban, Lean, Little's Law, pull, Warehousing, waste, Womack & Jones
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