An inventory manager must be able to develop an effective inventory control system to manage customer demand. The demand for the product will control inventory costs, carrying costs, ordering costs ...

After you create flow, the next Lean step is to establish pull. This is not any more difficult than the other Lean steps but may be the one most understood. Pull will not work unless you have created ...

I recently read an article that drove me crazy. In discussing “work-in-process” it talked about “pull systems” and how they are essential to lean success. It also discussed that pull systems are ...

Lean manufacturing is a methodology that focuses on minimizing waste within manufacturing systems while simultaneously maximizing productivity. Waste is seen as anything that customers do not believe ...

Lean manufacturing first came to the attention of manufacturers in the West with the 1990 publication of The Machine That Changed the World, which reflected the findings of MIT's five-year, $5 million ...