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Lean Supply Chain

Subject : business-skills
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1. 99.99966% good






2. 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






3. 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






4. '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






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






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






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






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






9. 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






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






11. 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






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






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






14. 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






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






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






17. The minimum number of parts - including units in machines - required to keep a cell or process moving






18. 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






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






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






21. 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






22. Plan Do Check Act






23. 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






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






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






26. 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






27. Enterprise Resource Planning eg SAP - JD Edwards






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






29. Usually around 8-10%






30. Focus on the biggest problem because it is the rate limiting step






31. 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






32. Gain corporate/top management vision - Train Lean champions/Kaizen facilitators - Access and develop the success structure - Identify the value stream - Get quick wins - Train associates and extend training to all - Engage and manage the supply chain






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






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






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






36. Visual description of an activity






37. Define measure analyse improve control






38. 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?






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






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






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






42. 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






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






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






45. 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






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






47. Change for the better - continuous improvement






48. Collaborative planning forecast replenishment -aka VMI






49. Procurement - Manufacturing - Warehousing - Distribution - Customers






50. 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.