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Lean Supply Chain

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Transport - Inventory - Motion - Waiting - Overproduction - Overprocessing - Defects






2. Factors that influence addition of value: technology quality reliability delivery customer service and environment






3. Another 5S acronym - Cleaning/Arrangement/Neatness/Discipline/Organization






4. What's in it for me?






5. Identify and process value streams - Track waste and eliminate - Flow smoothly - Continuous improvement - Seamless integration with all parties






6. Identify value - Map value stream - Create flow - Establish flow - Seek perfection






7. Excessive movement - includes document handoffs - Pull system eg Kanban - Reduce batch size - Load levelling






8. Overall equipment effectiveness: availability x performance x quality yield measured in hours






9. Visual description of an activity






10. Quantity of inventory against time showing batch size at different points






11. Too much or too soon - excessive work in progress - Pull system eg Kanban - Batch size reduction- Load levelling






12. Walk through to identify processes - Gather all relevant information - document customer/supplier info and count inventory - Establish info flow - how does each process know what to make next? - Identify push v pull - Quantify process lead time v pro






13. Tools for finding the root cause: 5 Whys - brainstorming - spaghetti diagram - Pareto analysis - Cause and Effect diagrams






14. Documentation aimed at performing task same way every time - current best way of doing an activity. Done with the people who do the work and OWNED by them. Uses: - drawings and photos - ensures consistency - developed with staff - readily accessible






15. Value stream mapping simple process of directly observing the flows of information and materials as they occur - summarising them visually - and then envisioning a future state with much better performance 1. Locate operations 2. Identify area inve






16. Plan Do Check Act






17. 99.99966% good






18. 'A process-orientated - integrated approach to buying - making and moving products and services to customers. SCM as a broad scope includes sub-suppliers - suppliers - internal operations - trade customers and end users.' MIT






19. Value (what customer will pay for - ask them)- Value Stream (all processes that add value) - Continuous Flow (linking - avoid stagnation) - Pull (demand - nothing produced until signalled for) - Perfection (an ideal)






20. Failure mode and effects analysis. Identify every possible failure mode of a process or product - with the aim of determining the effect on other sub-items and on the required function of the product or process






21. Collaborative planning forecast replenishment -aka VMI






22. Aligning manufacturing output with customer demand to calculate safety stocks and Kanban levels - and at the same time provide a saving to the organization by reducing the amount of money tied up in inventory






23. A set of businesses with interlocking business relationships and shareholdings






24. Anyone can assess conditions - Encourage participation reduce search time - Fewer questions - Better safety - Beter communication Examples: Tool board - visual kanban






25. Value left axis -Success probability right axis - height of bar shows effort involved?






26. Inbound: total cost of ownership - v quality - delivery schedule - flexibility - Outbound: customer satisfaction - v cost - flexibility - support level






27. Vendor Managed Inventory






28. Buy - forecast - source - purchase - demand variability - Make - manufacture - assemble - planning - scheduling - Move - warehouse - distribution - logistics - timing - inventory - Sell - customer - demand - on-time






29. Globalisation - Innovation/technology - Costs - Competitiveness - Quality - Customer service (including internal customers) - Risk management - Environment (physical)






30. Link activities and processes into most efficient combinations to maximise value added content while minimising waste






31. Lean enterprise self assessment tool - proprietary MIT have to buy






32. Superset of process map - icons that allow capture of info / easy to understand - captures both material and information flow - identifies key info to prioritise what improvement actions should be initiated






33. Minimum order quantity






34. Places where part finished inventory is stored until info comes from the customer that there's demand to finish it in a particular way






35. Ship - store - move - make - pack - distribute - store - sell - return - service






36. Material requisition planning






37. Value added time + nva time... time it takes to go through all the elements of a process before the activity repeats






38. Enterprise Resource Planning eg SAP - JD Edwards






39. Single Minute Exchange of Dies - observe and record - separate internal and external - convert internal to external as possible - streamline activities - document






40. Shows movement through sequence of activities through top view - Plot to see how movement can be reduced






41. The average rate at which customers buy products - and hence the rate at which products should be manufactured. actual operating time / customer requirement per shift






42. Replenishment signal that authorises activity or delivery of required materials. Initiated by consumption - only happens for good parts - using the cell triggers the pull - nothing produced or moved without signal - only the kanban quantity delivered






43. Change for the better - continuous improvement






44. Vertical y axis stock in days - Horizontal x axis Lead time in days






45. Define measure analyse improve control






46. Right number right material right place - Eliminate redundant activities - materials - tools - Reduce inventory - Set continuous improvement goals - Respond to customer requirements - Include defect prevention programme - Reduce setup times - Deliv






47. Human foolproofing eg cannot insert 3-pin plug wrong way up






48. Usually around 8-10%






49. Cumulative trauma disorder






50. Unevenness - Rocks in the stream - hidden by inventory