Lean « Supply Chain Movement

The tools for Integrated Business Planning

01/27/2012 at 5:17 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments

Lean supply chains became a reality for some organisations during the economic downturn; not through increased efficiency, but through panic as they drained inventory to cut costs. These same organisations now face the challenge of restoring the...

Category: Blogs | Tags: Integrated Business Planning, JDA, Lean, Oliver Wight, Oracle, S&OP, Sales & Operations Planning, Steve Rowntree, supply chains
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Lean with more stock

10/31/2011 at 4:30 pm | Marieke | No Comments

Recently I was invited by a production company in the south of The Netherlands. The reason was chronic lack of grip on the production process. This was far from a new problem. However, increasing pressure on cost and reliability, forced the plant...

Category: Blogs | Tags: Alex Tjalsma, assembly, assembly line, inventory, Involvation, Lean, Manufacturing, orders, production, Six Sigma, solution
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Visibility of complexity

07/1/2011 at 2:21 pm | Martijn Lofvers | No Comments

According to Professor David Simchi-Levi from MIT in Boston, there are six trends that are challenging current thinking on supply chain management: globalisation, the increasing cost of logistics, higher levels of risk in the chain, increasing cost...

Category: Blogs | Tags: Bain & Company, complexity, Darrel Rigby, David Simchi-Levi, Lean, Martijn Lofvers, mit, Ron Ashkenas, Simply Effective, Six Sigma, Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Movement, trends, visibility, Winning in Turbulence
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