Apply Lean to supply chains
By Manufacturing Business Technology Staff -- Manufacturing Business Technology, 2/12/2009 8:48:00 AM
The nonprofit Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) now offers an expanded training schedule for how to apply lean principles in supply chain, logistics, warehouse, and material handling operations.
View the list of upcoming workshops.
Here’s a list of the LEI workshops and the expanded 2009 training schedule:
Lean Supply Stream: Rethinking Supply Chain and Logistics Management (two days)
Learn how to apply lean principles to the extended enterprise, beginning with extended value-stream mapping to uncover waste. You'll learn how to calculate "total cost of ownership" for material purchases, cut lead time and inventory, develop customer and supplier measurement systems, break down cross-functional barriers, implement pull systems for material replenishment, and establish supply-chain visibility.
• Raleigh, April 15-16 , Hilton at Research Triangle Park
• Minneapolis, July 14-15
• Chicago, Oct.28-29
Lean Warehousing Implementation (two days)
Learn how to begin implementing lean principles step-by-step in a warehouse, using techniques such as lean storage, operational diagramming, standardized work, workload planning, and visual management. Topics also include development of small-batch work assignments, operational diagrams, and a work load plan to create a just-in-time operation based on levelized work, pull, and continuous flow.
• Toronto, Canada, June 3-4
• Detroit, Aug.26-27
• Chicago, Oct. 27-28
Making Materials Flow (one day)
Learn how to implement, sustain, and improve a dependable material-handling system for purchased parts from the receiving door to the shipping door. It focuses on how to transition from a mass-production material-handling system to a lean system that reliably supplies purchased parts to continuous- flow cells, small-batch processing, and traditional assembly lines using pull, timed delivery routes, a central supermarket, and the critical Plan for Every Part
• Raleigh, April 16, Hilton at Research Triangle Park
• Toronto, Canada, June 4
• Detroit, Aug. 27
• Chicago, Oct. 29
