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(More customer reviews)The modern manager has two options with regard to adopting the principles of lean management. They can ignore it and make the success of their organization unlikely or they can adopt it and make the success of their organization more likely. Lean management is not a magic wand that will suddenly make everything in your organizational world right; it is based on taking hard, honest and reasonable looks at the ways you do everything in your business. Some consider it to be an extreme effort to remove waste from your processes, but that is only a partial explanation of what lean management is. It is a process where you go through everything you do, examining what you do, what others do for you and determining if any step can be eliminated, shortened, economically outsourced or even economically insourced.
As you perform your analysis, one of the most significant errors that you need to avoid is the pseudo-savings of a potential change. On first analysis, a change may provide savings, usually on the short term. However, that is only temporary, over time the consequences of the change leads to an increase in costs that may dwarf the savings.
All of the mindset principles that first need to be installed before you can begin an effective evaluation of moving down the lean path are described and explained in this book. Furthermore, there are also examples of situations in the realm of pseudo-savings. Historically accurate case studies are presented in detail covering several different industries.
No book can provide examples of lean management principles that are directly applicable to more than a minority of business situations. However, that in no way means that any manager will fail to find valuable pearls of lean wisdom here. Applying lean management techniques is more of a generalized mindset rather than a specific one, all that you need to do is supply the wisdom to apply it to your situation. If you cannot do that, then you are in the wrong line of work.
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Featuring an expansive set of tools, techniques, and performance measures, this unique book shows how to apply the lean philosophy across the entire supply chain, from suppliers, to transportation and operations, through distribution to customers. Managers who are under constant pressure to find new sources of competitive advantage and to demonstrate performance improvements will find End-to-End Lean Management to be a timely and necessary resource.KEY FEATURES:- Describes a broad array of waste that affects all supply chains and shows how to make lean performance improvement a reality across your entire supply chain- Identifies nine key myths and realities of lean and provides an updated, integrated, and holistic view of lean that applies to service organizations, non-profit institutions, government, and manufacturers- Presents valuable tools and techniques along with a comprehensive set of lean performance measures to support your end-to-end lean journey- Includes several real-world examples and detailed applications that show how progressive organizations are implementing a variety of lean solutions in both non-manufacturing and manufacturing industries- WAV offers a presentation covering process modeling for the lean supply chain, a presentation outlining steps to conducting a value-analysisworkshop for lean improvement, value stream mapping symbols and descriptions, a creative thinking techniques presentation, a continuum of supply chain relationships model, a group problem-solving aid, and a listing of websites offering free lean resources available from the Web Added Value Download Resource Center at jrosspub.com
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