In uncertain economic times, manufacturers, suppliers and logistics companies have to work together to minimise total supply chain costs, argues Picme’s Jason Barclay.
This can only be achieved through bottom-up lean implementation
such as improving overall equipment effectiveness, eliminating
waste and minimising batch size and changeover times through
such techniques as single piece flow or SMED (single minute
exchange of die) techniques.
Secondly, for organisations to target the correct improvement
activities, they all should embark on a value stream mapping
activity to develop a lean implementation plan which can then
form part of their policy deployment process.
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