Baseball Trade Show – Mascot Manufacturing
TAGS: audit | baseball trade show | baseball winter meetings | costumes | data | erp system | inventory | lead times | lean | manufacturing | mascots | reorder point | safety stock | visual factory I had a chance to speak with a company that designs and manufactures mascot suits at the Baseball Trade Show last week. This company’s booth had a few mascot suits …Continue reading →
Baseball Trade Show – Licensed Merchandise
TAGS: apparel | baseball winter meetings | china | jit | just in time | lean | major league baseball | manufacturing | merchandise | pittsburgh pirates On the first day of the Baseball Trade Show I was approached by a manufacturer/distributor of licensed merchandise for Major League Baseball about some issues he expects to encounter. His …Continue reading →
A Lean Discussion With My Grandma
TAGS: baseball winter meetings | brochure | cans | chicago | dallas texas | envelope | excess inventory | floor | grandma | green beans | inventory | kitchen | money | o'hare | pantry | sales After flying out of Dallas from the Baseball Winter Meetings and landing in Chicago, I was all set to drive home to Ohio but stopped off to stay at my …Continue reading →
Defects Example – FedEx Office
TAGS: baseball trade show | baseball winter meetings | brochures | copies | dallas | defect | defects | fedex | fedex office | lean | printing | rental car | rework | scrap | texas | waste | xerox My experience at the Baseball Winter Meetings in Dallas has provided me with an excellent illustration of where defects can be costly for consumers and for suppliers. I chose to …Continue reading →
Welcome to Lean Blitz Consulting!
TAGS: baseball | baseball winter meetings | blitz | chad walters | first | football | lean | lean blitz | new | november | opening | operations | post | process | six sigma | small business | sports | strategy | welcome My name is Chad Walters, and thank you for visiting Lean Blitz Consulting. Lean Blitz is a blog dedicated to showing you, dear reader, how to be more efficient by using …Continue reading →