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BOM Profile Diagnostic

BOM (Bill Of Material) is a list of the raw materials, sub-assemblies, intermediate assemblies, sub-components, parts, and the quantities of

Starboard Navigator – Logistics Network Optimization Software

Starboard Navigator is a reasonably priced cloud-based application for designing and optimizing supply chain logistic networks. Creating products, customers, facilities,

Logistics Network Model

New trade agreements, shifting customer and supplier locations, changing labor and freight rates, fuel costs, new products and markets all

Telling consultants what to do…

Paraphrasing Steve Jobs … “It doesn’t make sense to hire smart consultants and then tell them what to do; we

Lean Product Development Videos Worth Watching

Don Reinertsen An introduction to Lean Product Development Flow Allan Ward Allen Ward presentation of Lean Product Development Dr. Allen

Product Development Best Practices

Most product development teams fail to meet their full potential. They consume more resources than is necessary to test, evaluate,

18 Long Lead Time Purchasing Strategies

In project management the long pole is the part of the project that is on the critical path due to

Warehouse Slotting

What Is Warehouse Product Slotting? Warehouse Product Slotting is defined as the intelligent location of product in a warehouse or

Scientific Method and Improvement Kata

Scientific Method is the systematic observation, measurement, experimentation, formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses. Hypotheses are a supposition or proposed

Measuring Supply Chain Forecast Accuracy

Measuring Supply Chain Forecast Accuracy is usually done with Mean Absolute Percent Error or MAPE, the average of percentage errors.

10 Things to Improve Forecast Accuracy

Forecasts are never right but you can improve your forecast accuracy … You can’t improve what you don’t measure Aggregate

Not so ‘Good to Great’

An executive asked my opinion about having his staff all read Good to Great by Jim Collins (2001). It’s been

Kanban and Sustainability

Dear Larry, Andrew and Guanair; How are you doing ? I would like to share with you that We Won

Business Model Canvas

Remember how you felt when you first started drawing your first Value Stream Maps? Well that’s how I felt when

LeanSigma Tool Kit

Lean Sigma Behavior Other Customer Process Focus Muda, Muri, Mura Value Stream Map Flow, Takt, Pull Visual Management Process Analysis

Demand Segmentation – one size fits none

We know better than to try to force fit strategies yet time and again we find businesses planning and managing

Supply Chain Kaizen

Euclides Coimbra latest book recently made it to the top of my reading list. Kaizen in Logistics & Supply Chains

Lean Sales Forecasting

Why can’t Sales give us a decent forecast? Paraphrasing George E.P. Box, “All forecasts are wrong, some are useful.” If

Safety Stock – How To

Safety stock is an additional quantity held in inventory in order to reduce the risk that an item will be

Material Classification Logic

Bruce asked “Do any of you have any standard material classification logic that you have used. I’m working with a

Lean Math

We would like to announce a new entrant into the lean blogosphere, it’s called Lean MathTM (leanmath.com). We know what

New set of eyeglasses

It’s never enough just to tell people about some new insight. Rather, you have to get them to experience it

Kamishibai – Work Observation Card

Kamishibai or Work Observation Card is a management tool for starting and improving Leader Standard Work,. Kamishibai, in Japanese means

Square Root Law – inventory in multiple locations

Got asked what would happen to inventory when the number of inventory stocking locations change. I thought for a minute

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