Building a Lean Fullfillment Stream: Rethinking Your Supply Chain and Logistics to Create Maximum Value at Minimum Total Cost - Softcover

Martichenko, Robert; Von Grabe, Kevin

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9781934109199: Building a Lean Fullfillment Stream: Rethinking Your Supply Chain and Logistics to Create Maximum Value at Minimum Total Cost
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1934109193 ISBN 13: 9781934109199
Publisher: Lean Enterprises Inst Inc, 2010

Synopsis

Building a Lean Fulfillment Stream will change the way you think about your supply chain and logistics networks - giving you a way to act using lean principles to transform and continuously improve. In this pioneering workbook, lean logistics veterans Robert Martichenko and Kevin von Grabe explain step-by-step a comprehensive, real-life implementation process for optimizing your entire fulfillment stream from raw materials to customers, including two critical concepts: calculating the total cost of fulfillment and collaborating with across all functions and firms along the stream. Your company, like most, probably calculates costs at different points within departments, such as the piece price paid by the purchasing department. Few companies figure the total cost associated with each major function across the fulfillment stream. Calculating total cost, which to most executives is surprisingly large, lets you measure the impact of your improvement efforts on operational performance and

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Publisher
Lean Enterprises Inst Inc
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1934109193
ISBN 13 
9781934109199
Binding
Spiral-bound
Number of pages
111
Rating
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