This article highlights the benefits of adopting a Lean strategy, and why it is so important in today’s business world.
1) Today’s competitive, rapidly changing and customer focused global economy has led to renewed interest in lean.
2) Lean’s elimination of waste and variation makes organizations more competitive, agile and responsive to markets.
3) Planning and implementation management [...]
Published in the Harvard Business Review, this excellent article examines Toyota’s outstanding system of standard work and how they used this system to improve productivity and drive defects from their production process.
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Uniqlo, which is Japan’s largest clothing retailer, is on a tear — and HeatTech is a great example of why. With the company’s bold innovative efforts, meticulous inventory control and flexible manufacturing model, Uniqlo operates more like Toyota than it does a fashion emporium. So in true Japanese manufacturing tradition, Uniqlo doesn’t just make affordable [...]
Article introduces the Business Process Re-engineering, based on extensive references to the book “Reengineering the Corporation” by Hammer and Champy. It will draw out some questions about the absolute benefits of reengineering. At the end, the enabling role of information technology will be discussed. The reengineering profoundly changes all aspects of business and people. Part [...]
If we take a close look at the strengths and weaknesses of SCOR, It quickly becomes clear that SCOR methodology fills a major need in a Lean and Six Sigma program – identification, prioritization and strategic alignment of
project opportunities with the capability to execute them. Read more to know why?
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In any organization, strategy management is the key to its success. There are many theories based on this assumption that without a proper strategy and planning, it is difficult for any industry to survive irrespective of its size. It is necessary to understand here that all the major corporate organizations have established themselves, thanks to [...]
Business boomed for John Deere Limited (JDL) during the 1990s, prompting a significant overhaul of its supply chain facilities, systems and processes. Participating in the Victorian Government’s Benchmarking Supply Chain Performance helped the company measure the success of its improvements and identify the way forward. The benchmarking study was performed by Benchmarking Success as the [...]