A Case for Kanban and Materials Management TAGS: associate | business | car | consulting | consumable | defects | dollar foolish | excess | fuel | gasoline | glut | inventory | kanban | leak | lean | lean blitz | maintenance | material | motion | operations | penny wise | process | product | pull | ruin | sam's club | save money | six sigma | sports | stockout | storage | supplier | tool | transportation | vehicle | visual | wal-mart | walking | wastes A prominent sports organization in the area (that shall remain nameless) normally uses an outside materials supplier to stock about 200 individual consumable items (paper products, food and drink items, …Continue reading →

Lean Tools: 5S, Shine, and Billy Mays TAGS: 5S | as-seen-on-tv | basic | billy mays | blitz | board | clean | cleaners | colors | condition | ding king | dirt | discipline | dust | grease | grime | japanese | kaboom | lean | manager | oil | operations | operator | oxi-clean | paint | pepsi | pitchman | plexiglas | processes | set in order | shadow | shine | six sigma | sort | sports | straighten | supply | tool | white (This is a continuation of deeper dives into 5S – see posts about sort here and here, and a post about set-in-order here.) When you think of amazing, life-changing, all-in-one, …Continue reading →