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Supplier Evaluation & Performance Excellence
Understanding supplier performance is vital to ensuring a well-functioning supply network. This how-to book will help you develop and implement an evaluation process to help you reduce costs, lower risk, and improve both the performance of your company and your suppliers.
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Category Archives: Lean
Managing and Improving Supplier Performance in a Lean Environment
I am in Covington, Kentucky attending the AME International Lean Conference, Journey to Greatness. Attendance is excellent despite the economy and its adverse impact on other conferences this year. This may be due to various lean journeys presented by practitioners …
When Customer Focus and Green Collide
I was reading an article in the recent issue of AME Target, “Looking Forward,” excerpted from Doc Hall’s new book, Compression, due out this month from Productivity Press. The article is very thought-provoking as it looks at the …
Posted in Lean, Manufacturing, sustainability
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Supplier Assessment Can Be Supplier Education
Evaluating suppliers can be educational for the supplier. When suppliers are asked to comply with customer requirements that are considered industry best practices, they may have the opportunity to learn more about those practices. You may wonder how a company …
Posted in Corporate social responsibility, Lean, supplier evaluation
Tagged sustainability
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Wake Up and Smell the Coffee: Will Starbucks’ Pursuit of Lean Pay Off?
Since the WSJ came out last week with an article about Starbuck’s implementing lean, a lot of people have been expressing dismay at this new development. Known for its friendly baristas who brew your favorite coffee drink with care, Starbucks …
Breathing Green Life into MEP
Last month, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Phil Angelides, Chairman of Apollo Alliance, along with other business, labor and clean energy leaders introduced the “Investments for Manufacturing Progress and Clean Technology (IMPACT) Act of 2009,” a bill intended to …
Posted in Lean, Manufacturing
Tagged consulting, green manufacturing, Lean, Manufacturing
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NUMMI: Things Are Looking Gloomy
In a recent post, “GM’s Failure: What Happened to Lean,” I wrote about the origins of lean at GM and the NUMMI partnership with Toyota. Now, it seems that NUMMI is on Toyota’s chopping block and that Toyota …
Automotive Bankruptcies: An Inconvenient Competition
Some people are heaving sighs of relief that Chrysler is emerging from bankruptcy in the arms of Fiat and that GM is officially in bankruptcy soon to emerge as leaner and meaner entities. However, many are left holding the proverbial …
Posted in Lean, Manufacturing, supply chain, Supply Management, Uncategorized
Tagged Lean, Risk, suppliers
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GM's Failure - What Happened to Lean?
As the pundits pile on the eulogies and praise from the glory days and offer endless criticisms of GM’s catastrophic decline, people will be writing books and analyzing the decline and failure of GM for years to come.
But let’s …
In a Supply Chain Failure, a Bad Workman Blames His Tools
The latest victims of the economic downturn seem to be suppliers in the electronics supply chain. As reported in the May 18th WSJ article “Clarity is Missing Link in Supply Chain“, as business began to contract, Best Buy …
Becoming Lean: Procurement Can Help
I was reading the recent blog post at the Spendmatters: Beyond Shedding the Deadweight in Procurement and Operations. Instead of just cutting headcount, particularly in procurement, Jason Busch suggests other ways to approach cost reduction. Among the suggestions are: …