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Lean Supply Chain

Subject : business-skills
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1. Lean enterprise self assessment tool - proprietary MIT have to buy






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






3. Cumulative trauma disorder






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






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






6. 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






7. Procurement - Manufacturing - Warehousing - Distribution - Customers






8. Vendor Managed Inventory






9. Rework - repair - incorrect info. Due to poor training - tools - layouts - process failures - established standards - checklists - forms. - Visual controls - 5 Whys RCA - PDCA - Poke Yoke






10. Mainly human motion as opposed to things - walking - handling materials - centralised storage due to disorganisation - lack of visual controls - 5S - 5 Whys RCA - Load levelling - Pull system eg Kanban






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






12. Usually around 8-10%






13. 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)






14. Visual description of an activity






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






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






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






18. 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.






19. Suppliers inputs process outputs customers






20. Bringing people closer together for communication - One cell per product family - Bring together all the machines - Select appropriate tools - Aim is to have them independent - Train - balance workload - Reduce space and flow difference






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






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






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






24. 3 line graph showing product - service - internal scrap - Vertical y axis defect rate - Horizontal x axis the various stages of the process






25. Status quo unacceptable - Put aside preconceptions - Find root causes to problems - Focus on process not people - Employees are the experts - Allow yourself the right to fail (yeuch)






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






27. 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






28. Bill of materials






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






30. 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






31. Minimum order quantity






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






33. 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






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






35. Endless transformation of waste into value from the customer's perspective Womack & Browne 1996






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






37. 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






38. Material requisition planning






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






40. All mfg inherently wasteful. ultimate in batch reduction is a single piece going through a process






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






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






43. Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Realistic - Timetable/ time based / timely






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






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






46. Change for the better - continuous improvement






47. Collaborative planning forecast replenishment -aka VMI






48. Define measure analyse improve control






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






50. Plan Do Check Act







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