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

Von Grabe, Kevin,Martichenko, Robert

ISBN 10: 1934109193 / ISBN 13: 9781934109199

Published by Lean Enterprises Inst Inc, 2010

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• Title: Building a Lean Fullfillment Stream: Rethinking Your Supply Chain and Logistics to Create Maximum Value at Minimum Total Cost
• Publisher: Lean Enterprises Inst Inc
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1934109193
• ISBN 13: 9781934109199
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Condition: Very Good

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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