Lean and Technology: Working Hand in Hand to Enable and Energize Your Global Supply Chain

Description

• Copyright 2017
• Dimensions: 7" x 9-1/8"
• Pages: 320
• Edition: 1st

• eBook
• ISBN-10: 0-13-429160-3
• ISBN-13: 978-0-13-429160-4

Focus Your Supply Chain Technology Investments to Reduce Risk and Maximize Competitiveness

Lean, Six Sigma, and related approaches offer immense potential for improving competitiveness, cost, and customer experience—if you can overcome the challenges of planning and implementation. The well-targeted use of technology can dramatically reduce your risks and accelerate your progress. Until now, however, many guidebooks and consultants have treated Lean primarily as a “pen and pencil” technique. Lean and Technology is the first complete guide to integrating Lean thinking with proven, affordable, and emerging technologies. You’ll learn how companies are linking strategy, the value chain, and IT—and how they are executing on their plans to achieve real competitive advantage.

Step by step, Myerson shows how to use the proven six-step SCOR Model to organize the integration of technology with all key supply chain and operations processes. You’ll discover how to:

• PLAN to optimize supply chain networks, demand forecasting, master production scheduling, and S&OP
• SOURCE more effectively with today’s MRP and procurement/e-procurement technologies
• MAKE higher-value “lean production” products with modern ERP, MES, and short-term scheduling systems
• DELIVER the right customer solutions at the right time and cost via advanced DRP, TMS, and order fulfillment systems
• RETURN products and materials with state-of-the-art reverse logistics systems
• ENABLE continuous improvement via carefully chosen measurements, metrics, and analytics

Throughout, Myerson presents easy-to-use tools, methodologies, best practices, and real-world examples: all you need to improve speed, accuracy, integration, and collaboration across complex supply chains. He concludes by previewing emerging technologies for maintaining and extending the competitive advantage you’ve already built.

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Sample Content

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction to Lean Supply Chain Management and Technology

Chapter 1 – Introduction and Overview

Chapter 2 – Supply Chain, Technology and their growing importance to business and society   

Chapter 3 – Lean concepts and their applications in the Supply Chain

Chapter 4 – Applications of Software and Hardware Sourcing Process and Supply Chain and Logistics Management Technology     

Part II: Plan

Chapter 5 – Supply Chain Network Optimization

Chapter 6 – Demand Forecasting Systems

Chapter 7 – Master Production Scheduling (MPS) and other Advanced Planning Systems (APS)

Chapter 8 – Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)

Part III: Source

Chapter 9 – Materials Requirements Planning (MRP)

Chapter 10 – Procurement (and e-procurement) Systems

Part IV: Make

Chapter 11– Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems

Chapter 12 – Manufacturing Executions Systems (MES)

Chapter 13 – Short Term Scheduling

Part V: Deliver

Chapter 14 – Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP)

Chapter 15 – Transportation Management Systems (TMS)

Chapter 16 – Order Fulfillment Systems 

Part VI: Return

Chapter 17 – Reverse Logistics Systems

Part VII: Enable

Chapter 18 – Measurements, Metrics and Analytics

Part VIII: Where do we go from here?

Chapter 19 – Collaborative Supply Chain Systems

Chapter 20 – Emerging Technologies and their Potential Impact on the Lean Supply Chain in the coming years

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