January 6, 2006February 11, 2024Definitions, Lean, Supply Chain So, what’s so wrong with EOQ? A day ago I had a debate/discussion with a fellow lean thinker on EOQ, or Economic Order Quantity. It seems some think […]
January 5, 2006February 11, 2024Lean, Quality Continuous Improvement Definition: The management discipline to constantly eliminate waste, improve response time, simplify the design of both products and processes, and thereby improve […]
January 5, 2006February 11, 2024Economy 2005 Salary Survey From the December 8, 2005 issue of Purchasing. Time for a raise I’d say … * = Fewer than 10 respondents. […]
January 3, 2006February 11, 2024Consulting, Logistics, Supply Chain Supply Chain Soup Trying to replace one soup can in the middle of a display can lead to disaster. If you decide to change the […]
January 2, 2006February 11, 2024Quality Reflections on the Future of Quality Courtesy of Quality Progress, Dave Watkins writes in Reflections on the Future of Quality that: The quality management system lags behind evolving […]
January 2, 2006February 15, 2020Economy 2006 Economic Outlook Ted Daywalt, CEO and President of VetJobs Veteran Eagle offers his 2006 economic outlook in the latest issue of VetJobs monthly newsletter. […]
December 30, 2005Reviews, Supply Chain The Resilient Enterprise by Yossi Sheffi was a gift from Rebecca Kane Dow of ConnStep to thank me for a Lean Six Sigma presentation Ken […]
December 24, 2005Reviews, Supply Chain It’s a Flat World With the Christmas holiday here I’ve managed to knock off another book; The World is Flat by Tom Friedman. The crux of […]
December 23, 2005September 25, 2017Lean Skills for the Lean Supply Chain & Purchasing Professional By James P. Womack. There are really two ways to think about a supply chain. One is a market of many bidders […]