Fix Your Supply Chain : How to Create a Sustainable Lean Improvement Roadmap Hardback
by Paul (3M Company, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA) Husby, Dan (Sand Springs, Oklahoma, USA) Swartwood
Hardback
Description
Written by business leaders for business leaders, this book explores successful supply chain improvement requirements and improvement methodologies, along with their strengths and limitations.
It covers the use of these techniques in a story about Twin City Manufacturing, a fictitious company based on the authors' actual experiences.
The principles put forth in this volume show how to enable and sustain long-term change.
Whether you are intimately familiar with the supply chain discipline or have limited experience, the authors provide a valuable roadmap that can be applied to supply chain improvement.
Drawing from their combined 70 years of experience with supply chain-related functions, they explore seven factors that can help a company become one of the few that truly achieve and maintain operational excellence. 1. Top company leadership 2. Improvement methodology3. Continuous improvement strategy 4. The cause and the vision5. The Sustainable Improvement Roadmap6. Enablement of sustainability7. Constancy of purpose Operational excellence is required to make any winning business strategy sustainable, but it is only achieved and sustained through continuous improvement, and these improvements must be real.
This book will arm you with the knowledge and methods needed to identify needed change and the tools to implement them, and perhaps most importantly, give you the confidence needed to become an effective change agent.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:214 pages, 57 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication Date:21/05/2009
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- ISBN:9781563273810
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:214 pages, 57 Illustrations, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication Date:21/05/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9781563273810
