Value Stream Management: Strategy and Excellence in the Supply Chain

Presents results of a research project applying lean production ideas from the Japanese motor industry to supply chains outside the auto industry. Chapters are arranged in sections on the value stream, thinking strategically about change and about supply, making the change in supply management, and making the change in other linked processes. Addresses areas such as purchasing in complex environments, supplier development, and managing promotions within the value stream. Hines teaches supply chain management at Cardiff Business School. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Professor PETER HINES, is Professor of Supply Chain Management and Co-Director of the Lean Enterprise Research Centre at Cardiff Business School. He holds a BA (MA) in geography from Cambridge University and an MBA and PHD from the University of Cardiff. Peter followed a successful career in distribution and manufacturing industry before joining Cardiff Business School in 1992. Since that time he initially led the Materials Management Unit and now leads the 20 strong Lean Enterprise Research Centre together with Professor Dan Jones.

He has undertaken extensive research into the Supply Chain in both the automotive and other industries and has pioneered a number of key concepts, methods and applications in the UK, including: Supplier Associations (now involving over 500 UK firms), Value Stream Mapping, Network Sourcing, the Three Tier System of Management and the Value Stream Analysis Tool. He has written several books including Creating World Class Suppliers published by Pitman in 1994 and The Lean Enterprise (with Dan Dimancescu and Nick Rich) published by Amacom in 1997. He is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Logistics: Research & Applications and the present chairman of the Logistics Research Network/

Professor RICHARD LAMMING holds the CIPS Chair of Purchasing and Supply Management at the School of Management, University of Bath, in the UK, where he is Director of the Centre for Research in Strategic Purchasing and Supply (CRiSPS), and Director of Corporate Development for the School itself.

He began his career in the automotive industry, holding several posts, including five years as a management consultant. His academic career began in 1982. From 1986-90 he was a senior member of the International Motor Vehicle Programme, based at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) and Brighton Business School (UK). He was subsequently part of a small team which contributed to the best-selling book, The Machine That Changed the World (1990). It was this book that launched the concept of learn production.

In addition to his roles at Bath, he now carries out research, teaching, consultancy and presentation work, on an international basis, specializing in the conceptual and practical development of lean supply in several industrial and commercial sectors. He is a member of the steering group of Partnership Sourcing Ltd and an adviser to the UK Department of Trade and Industry.

Professor DANIEL T. JONES' career has been devoted to understanding the causes of differing industrial performance and to the concept of lean thinking or lean production.

He co-directed two major international studies of the automobile industry with Dr. James P. Womach of MIT and co-authored the resulting books The Future of the Automobile (1984) and The Machine that Changed the World (1990). In 1996 they published the best-selling Lean Thinking.

In 1989 he was appointed Professor of Management and in 1993 he founded the Lean Enterprise Research Centre at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. He is now a co-director of the centre with Professor Peter Hines.

He lectures extensively around the world and is a consultant to several companies trying innovative approaches in making the transition to Lean Management.

DR. PAUL D. COUSINS, BA (Hons) MBA PhD MCIPS. Paul began his working life with Westland helicopters Limited, based in Yeovil, Somerset, where he worked as an expeditor, chief expeditor, buyer and finally chief buyer. His academic career started with a degree in Informatics at Sheffield University. He continued, at the University of Bath, to study for an MBA degree and Doctorate.

In 1993, Dr. Cousins and Professor Lamming began work on the RAP project, a study that developed methodologies for assessing and developing supplier/buyer relationships. The current project is

ESSCMo - Environmentally Sound Supply Chain Management.

Dr. Cousins has also worked as a senior consultant with A.T. Kearney. He now balances both academia and industry with posts at the University of Bath, A.T. Kearney and a range of other major blue chip firms.

Finally, Paul has authored a wide range of academic papers, as well as two books which are due to be published in 1999/2000.

NICK RICH, BSc (Cardiff), MBA (Cardiff) is a Senior Research Associate. After a number of years' international industrial management and consultancy experience, he returned to join the university at Cardiff. He was one f the original members of the Lean Enterprise Research Centre and has conducted many of the 'world famous' research programmes of the centre. These programmes have included the Andersen Consulting Lean Enterprise Benchmarking studies, the Supply Chain Development Programme and the Lean Processing Programme (LEAP). Nick has published many papers and books including Creating The Lean Enterprise (1997) with Professor Peter Hines. He received the International Benchmarking Award in 1998. He has also spent extensive periods of study in Japan studying supply chain management practices. His research interests are policy deployment, lean production, quality management and total productive maintenance.