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Your supply chain is costing you money – Reason #9: Relentless pursuit of one metric at the expense of other metrics.

Kinaxis

Reason #9 Relentless pursuit of one supply chain metric at the expense of other metrics. Yet, these are similar instructions as what is passed down to the supply chain from executives focused on a specific supply chain metric. Why do companies focus on reducing a specific metric? CQI, TQM, Six-Sigma, Lean, etc.

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25 Lean Manufacturing Tools – 5S, Six Sigma & Beyond

Unleashed

Here we look at the most common tools and techniques used to bring the advantages of lean into the modern manufacturing workplace. In this guide to lean manufacturing tools: What are lean manufacturing tools? Indeed, these tools could be several different things, such as: New shop floor layouts. Big data frameworks.

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Category Management in Procurement: A Comprehensive Overview & Best Practices

SCMDOJO

Category management is a procurement strategy that involves grouping similar products or services together into categories and managing them as a single unit. This approach can help organizations streamline their procurement processes, negotiate better deals with suppliers, and ultimately save money.

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Employing this S.M.A.R.T. Technique with a Logistics Company to Create Total Stakeholder Satisfaction

GlobalTranz

The effect of any communications effort with this may be difficult to measure unless specific measurement tools are put in place upfront. Let's talk about the outputs, or desired metrics worth measuring, in each category of what a logistics company might provide. Consider Six Sigma quality will be used and measured.

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How to Sustain a Lean Culture in Manufacturing & Supply Chain

GlobalTranz

The focus is to eliminate all wastes in the organization, improve processes, solve root cause problems, create a pull environment, and ensure that Lean Six Sigma (LSS) works for quality and daily problem solving using DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) and PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, and Act). Why are we doing this?

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Supply Chain Case Study: the Executive's Guide

Supply Chain Opz

In order to streamline the delivery, Coca-Cola implemented a vehicle routing software. The reason is that is the software vendor has a very good relationship with Coca-Cola''s legacy ERP software vendor. The secret behind its supply chain success is the use of Six Sigma approach.

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9 Steps to Establish the Lean Supply Chain: A System of Interconnected & Interdependent Partners

GlobalTranz

There should be metrics involved to monitor these objectives to ensure success across the supply chain. These metrics should be reviewed frequently to ensure supply chain success. Utilize Six Sigma’s DMAIC : Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control to solve any problems or roadblocks. Use Pull Systems, Like Kanban.