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Lean Supply Chain

Subject : business-skills
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1. Lean thinking for equipment. Aims to eliminate accidents - defects and breakdowns. 3 areas: availability - performance - quality - equipment failure/breakdown - setup/adjustment - idling/minor stops affecting performance - reduced speed affecting






2. Enterprise Resource Planning eg SAP - JD Edwards






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






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






5. IT - Inbound logistics - Outbound logistics - Quality - Technology/design






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






7. The 4 ribs or bones are Man - Machine - Materials and Methods






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






9. Suppliers inputs process outputs customers






10. '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






11. In theory of constraints drum is the rate of the constraint - buffer is stocks to supply - rope is limit on upstream production to prevent flooding.






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






13. Throw out old fixed ideas on how to do things - No blame - treat others as you want to be treated - Think positive - don't say you can't - Don't wait for perfection - 50% improvement now is fine - Correct mistakes as son as they are found - Don't sub






14. 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






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






16. Procurement - Manufacturing - Warehousing - Distribution - Customers






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






18. Visual 'call for help' system - means a Japanese paper lantern






19. Includes both va and nva activities unlike cycle time which is only the va activities. Confused by this. Processing time seems = VA activities. Process cycle is different?






20. Design and manage the processes - flows and assets of material and information required to satisfy customer demands






21. Visual description of an activity






22. Try to defer variation - keep generic for as long as possible






23. Structured methodology of sequence of activities aimed at removing waste by improving organisation - visual communication and overall cleanliness. Sort - keep only what you need Set in Order - A place for everything and everything in its place Sh






24. All activities associated with a product from raw material to final customer.






25. Ho - direction - Shin - needle - Strategic direction rippled down to all in organisation - Focus attention on corporate direction - Align activity to support - Integrate with daily activity of staff - Structured review of progress - Based on mgmt by






26. Averages both the volume and sequence of different model types






27. Non value added time. The potential non-production time that can be eliminated from a process






28. Transport - Inventory - Motion - Waiting - Overproduction - Overprocessing - Defects






29. Factors that influence quality. Technology quality reliability delivery customer-service environment






30. 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






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






32. 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






33. 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






34. Outsourcing - ecommerce - digitisation - globalisation - innovation - costs






35. Material requisition planning






36. Minimum order quantity






37. Define measure analyse improve control






38. Product portfolio - Product design - Variety in parts/raw materials - Manufacturing process - Inventory (BTO or BTS) - Distribution - Vendor partnerships - Logistics






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






40. Each step in process should be as close to Takt time as possible






41. Inventory against time typically 4 lines consumer demand - retail sales - mfr forecast - mfr plan






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






43. Usually around 8-10%






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






45. 3 line graph showing product - service - internal scrap - Vertical y axis defect rate - Horizontal x axis the various stages of the process






46. First in first out first piece of inventory required in an operating step is the one delivered first






47. Must all work together - Suppliers - Procurement - Operations - Warehousing - Transport - Customers






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






49. 1. Value Proposition - it is easy to identify stakeholders - it is very difficult to understand what provides value to stakeholders 2. Value Identification - structure value streams based on the stakeholders' value propositions so that people - g






50. 99.99966% good