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"Lean Roadmap" The Lean Leaders Guidebook Overview

Item Name: Lean Roadmap, The Lean Leaders Guidebook
Item Number: 1411622537
Price: $18.95

Lean Roadmap is the resource that clearly defines in logical building block steps the design of a lean vision for both material flow and information flow throughout your supply chain. Prior to Lean Roadmap, lean design and implementation for the most part addressed equipment arrangement into cells. After all we can see and touch the equipment and the layout practically defines itself. What has been overlooked and all but devoid from lean design is the information flow aspect of lean, how to configure and utilize MRP/ERP business software for a successful lean implementation. Realization of the full benefits of lean cannot be attained until the information flow processes have been designed and implemented. Lean Roadmap introduces a complete, logical and systemic process

Significant breakthroughs in Lean information flow design are defined in and described in detail that enable a business to harness the power of their business software investment in MRP/ERP to manage the business in a Lean environment.

The book details how to design a simple supply chain design and management process consisting of three primary building blocks,

The revolutionary and breakthrough building block processes described in Information Flow Part V, are currently being utilized in manufacturing environments with ease and success. The book has five parts.

Part I Lean Roadmap Building Blocks Overview

Part 1 offers an overview of the building block processes required for a complete lean design for your business, relates business improvements to Lean Roadmap building blocks, and is a non-technical “nuts and bolts” overview of the importance and simplicity of these building blocks in improving your business.

Part 2 Lean Roadmap Management

Part 2 describes how lean organizational assignments are linked to Lean Roadmap building blocks and covers how leadership and employees function as part of the Lean Roadmap design and implementation.

Part 3 Lean Roadmap Value Stream Mapping (VSM)

Part 3 describes the VSM process used for “out of the box” thinking, resulting in an internal team delivering a future-state vision for material and information flow that significantly reduces lead time and costs. This future-state vision is the basis for the detailed design required and defined in Parts 4 and 5.

Part 4 Lean Roadmap Supply Chain Management Material Flow Design Process Steps

Part 4 covers material flow related to cell design, plant layout, kanban, and cell management from suppliers to and through the manufacturing process and to the customer, utilizing cellular manufacturing, kanban replenishment, and ATC scheduling to final assembly cell capacity. How to match capacity to customer demand and deliver on time to the customer.

Part 5 Lean Roadmap Supply Chain Management Information Flow Design Process Steps

Part 5 covers configuring MRP/ERP for lean. Information flow is vital to supply chain design, planning, and management. Revolutionary concepts that simplify the process are described in this section such as,

1. Simple S&OP using planning families, plan thousands of configurations using a handful of numbers,
2. ATC scheduling customer demand to cell capacity at order booking,
3. Material replenishment using supplier 1 line reporting,
4. Lean software, Sales & Operations Manager™, and kanban Manager™.