Lean distribution : applying lean manufacturing to distribution, logistics, and supply chain

✍ Scribed by Kirk D. Zylstra

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Lean Distribution addresses the most challenging issues currently facing industry: forecast revisions and inaccuracies, customer demands to limit inventory exposure, and the need to reduce supply chain costs."

"Lean Distribution resolves the forecasting dilemma and provides an actionable road map to transform the supply chain with specific recommendations to implement improvements. Lean embraces the variation and inaccuracy inherent in forecasts and customer orders to focus on reducing lead time, reducing lot sizes, and increasing reliability, yielding the flexibility and simplicity required to achieve consistent results. This book goes beyond describing the principles and a foundation to provide a comprehensive, real-world framework and specific recommendations for customizing a Lean approach to transform distribution in any business."--Jacket. �Read more...

Abstract: "Lean Distribution addresses the most challenging issues currently facing industry: forecast revisions and inaccuracies, customer demands to limit inventory exposure, and the need to reduce supply chain costs."

"Lean Distribution resolves the forecasting dilemma and provides an actionable road map to transform the supply chain with specific recommendations to implement improvements. Lean embraces the variation and inaccuracy inherent in forecasts and customer orders to focus on reducing lead time, reducing lot sizes, and increasing reliability, yielding the flexibility and simplicity required to achieve consistent results. This book goes beyond describing the principles and a foundation to provide a comprehensive, real-world framework and specific recommendations for customizing a Lean approach to transform distribution in any business."--Jacket

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Taking the Lean Approach --
Distribution Challenges --
Optimizing Distribution --
IT Transforms Distribution Processes --
Lean Operating Capabilities --
Customer Service Policy --
Buffer Strategy --
Replenishment Cycles --
Pull Approach.

✦ Subjects

Business logistics -- Management. Physical distribution of goods -- Management. Lean manufacturing. Distribution (Économie politique) -- Gestion. Logistique (Organisation) -- Gestion. Strategische planning. Ketenbeheer. Distributie. Distributionslogistik. Lean Management. Supply Chain Management.