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Introduction to Lean | |
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Strategic Deployment | |
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Advanced Value Stream Mapping | |
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Lean Problem Solving | |
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Lean Administrative Process Transformation | |
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Lean Manufacturing | |
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Kaizen Fundamentals | |
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Lean Supply Chain | |
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Lean Six Sigma | |
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Lean Supervisor | |
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Extending your Lean journey beyond the four walls of your operations into the supply chain maximizes customer service levels and removes waste across the enterprise.
Organizations often face their greatest struggles when converting factual demand signals into pull-based schedules for customers who are actively contributing to the growth and success of the business. An effective supply chain strategy must provide the disciplines, methods and tools necessary to segment the customer against growth and value-contributing factors, link trading partners through collaborative planning and forecasting regimens, match supply and demand for the most appropriate use of enterprise-wide capacity and drive the selection and integration of strategic suppliers who offer the skills necessary to augment the entire supply chain for the benefit of the ultimate customer.
Although Lean concepts and disciplines have long been associated with dramatic improvements in the manufacturing arena including waste elimination, throughput improvements, line changeover cycle time reductions and substantial quality improvements, supply chains today face enormous pressures linked to competitive forces, ever-exacting customer demands and “non-Lean” practices. Simply put, Lean supply chains are those where end-customer demand permits the smooth, synchronized flow of materials, information and physical assets (up or down) based on period-specific demand requirements.
Far too often, supply chain management programs focus on the optimization of intra-supply chain components such as inventory management, warehousing operations or production scheduling. In the Lean environment, such producers of waste are eliminated in favor of a universal supply chain mechanism that rapidly self-adjusts to the pull of end-customer demand through the use of three Lean Supply Chain concepts:
• Demand-driven operations planning
• Lean strategic sourcing and supplier integration
• Lean distribution operations
Fact-based demand signals are required to plan supply chain capacity. Lean suppliers must provide the global capacity and high-quality goods and services required to execute, and distribution operations must provide profit center-quality capabilities in order to maximize margin capture. Without all three, the Lean Supply Chain cannot be realized.
The driving forceLean Supply Chain provides talent and learning development to supply chain and operations professionals.
The benefitsLean Horizons’ Lean Supply Chain training materials and program guides employ an optimal mix of classroom instruction, hands-on workshop-oriented training and practical examples designed to familiarize supply chain and operations professionals with core Lean supply chain concepts and implementation requirements including:
• Designing a clear roadmap to facilitate the most effective Lean journey beyond shop floor or administrative Lean practices into the broader supply chain
• Applying key software-based tools as required to manage extreme complexity and enforce standard work in the Lean environment
• Determining total supply chain flexibility requirements and aligning the organization to those suppliers capable of successfully operating in the same environment
The Lean Horizons approachLean Horizons' suite of Lean Supply Chain training and process development programs offer clients a comprehensive solution to designing, deploying and sustaining Lean supply chain capabilities across all key dimensions including:
Sales & Operations Planning Immersion Training Program: Comprehensive executive and process management-level training program designed to familiarize the organization with all fundamental aspects of deploying S&OP as an enterprise-wide business planning system. Core components include a detailed overview of S&OP disciplines and methodologies, consensus demand planning, capacity requirements planning, cost of capacity analysis, inventory deployment, level-pull scheduling and supply base management.
S&OP Operations Guidebook: Detailed operating manual outlining all required supply chain activities, communications, data collection and consensus management activities to manage and sustain an S&OP program. Includes operating procedures, routine communications management, software integration factors with Lean Horizons’ alliance partner Interlace systems and all other tasks required to generate a period-by-period S&OP plan linking global demand to enterprise-wide supply and then translated into a level-pull production schedule.
Lean Sourcing & Supplier Integration Program: Includes all necessary training, tools and methodologies to effect a global Lean supplier integration initiative including the definition and requirements of enabled Lean suppliers, joint delivered-cost reduction strategies, supplier selection criteria, best practices dissemination, deliver-cost reduction model development, buyer-supplier value stream integration and buyer go-to-market Lean messaging strategy development.
Customer Value Analysis: Comprehensive framework for evaluating market conditions, customer base dynamics and existing market offerings to determine the most appropriate alignment of manufacturing operations/product offerings to those customers capable of driving sustainable market growth and margin improvement.
Lean Distribution Operations Immersion Program: Provides detailed overview of the requirements to migrate Lean concepts and disciplines into the distribution arena including Lean distribution center operating requirements, kanban materials flow-enabled logistics capabilities, takt time applications to align and synchronize distribution requirements to production flow and, therefore, end-customer demand, and global inventory management practices in the Lean environment.
For pricing and terms, please contact info@leanhorizons.com or telephone +1.860.537.6786 to speak with one of our specialists.
