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Blog: Lean Supply Chain

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  • What is Lean Supply Chain Management?

    Lean Supply Chain Management is a philosophy that champions waste reduction and process simplification. It’s a sys…

  • How Do You Reduce Lead Time in Your Supply Chain?

    Excessively long lead times are the single biggest factor leading to poor supply chain performance. If your business is …

  • Five Ways to Improve Supplier Performance

    Whether your business is involved in manufacturing or distribution, chances are that the number one reason why you fail …

  • The Top 6 Ways to Engage Suppliers to Improve your Supply Chain

    The Top 6 Ways to Engage Suppliers to Improve your Supply Chain Everyone wants to engage suppliers to improve performanc…

  • What Makes a Great Supply Chain Manager?

    By Timothy McLean, author of “On Time in Full: Achieving Perfect Delivery with Lean Thinking in Purchasing, Supply Cha…

  • The Top 6 Ways to Build Supply Chain Resilience

    It is more important than ever to make sure you build supply chain resilience focusing on building systems and processes…

  • The Advantages and Challenges of Implementing a Lean Supply Chain

    A Lean Supply Chain can uncover hidden value for your customers. There are some advantages and challenges you should con…

  • The Top 5 Benefits of Lean Supply Chain Management

    The benefits of Lean Supply Chain Management are massive with supply chain complexity increasing in recent years it is m…

  • The Six Steps to Bring Your Production Back Home

    How to Bring Your Production Back Home I recently made the business case for re-shoring production. However, once you ha…

  • When Panic Buying Sets in Normal Supply Chain Rules Don’t Apply

    COVID-19 has created an unusual situation, panic buying has caused supply chain breakdown. How do you fix it?…

  • Is It Time to Get Out of China?

    Manufacturing in China has been turned upside down and its probably a good time to think about relocating your operation…

  • Implementing an ERP System

    We offer practical Lean solutions to businesses implement your ERP System that can live with your Kanban system. Contact…

  • Achieving Perfect Delivery with a Lean Supply Chain

    What does it take to deliver what your customer needs, in the quantity they need, on time, every time? It should be simp…

  • Lean Inventory Management — Understand it Before You Try to Slash it!

    Inventory management is one of the biggest costs in a business and often the largest commitment of cash is inventory. In…

  • What Does Your China Supply Chain Cost You and How do You Improve it?

    China is no longer the low cost manufacturing paradise it once was. However the problems of long lead times, dodgy suppl…

  • How Poor Product Management Can Damage Your Reputation and Cost You Millions

    The decision about what products to sell and what products not to sell is one of the most important marketing decision t…

  • Why Businesses Fail to Deliver On Time In Full for Customers

    Many of the distribution businesses I see suffer from the same problems – frequent stock shortages on key items, while…

  • Knowing What to Make and When to Make it – The Role of Forecasting in Lean Enterprise

    Knowing the future has been a human fascination since the beginning of time. In business, information about the future i…

  • Looking Across Your Manufacturing Supply Chain & Implementing a Lean Program

    When looking to implement a Lean enterprise philosophy across your company, it doesn't take long with the planning and d…

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