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 Chain and...
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What is Lean Supply Chain Management?
Lean thinking has evolved over the years and whilst Industry 4.0 has been the most recent trend, improving your supply...
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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...
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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 consider...
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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 more...
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The Six Steps to Bring Your Production Back Home
How to Bring Your Production Back Home In my most recent article, I made the business case for re-shoring production....
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The Business Case For Making It Here
Why Reconsidering Your Extended International Supply Chain Makes Good Business Sense – Regardless of the Pandemic The COVID-19 Pandemic has...
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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?...
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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 operations...
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The Top 6 Ways to Engage Suppliers to Improve your Supply Chain
Everyone wants to engage suppliers to improve performance. It seems like an easy win – no need to deal with...
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Implementing an ERP System
We offer practical Lean solutions to businesses implement your ERP System that can live with your Kanban system. Contact us...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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 to...
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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 suffering...
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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...
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Why Distribution 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...
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Top 4 Tips to Improve your Chinese Supplier’s Competitiveness!
China is getting expensive. Very few companies sourcing from China will have failed to notice the changes over the past...
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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 is...
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