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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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Tag Archives: Lean
NUMMI Suppliers Lose Their Customer: Can Lean Help Them Survive the Loss?
Looks like it’s really all over for NUMMI, the Toyota/GM joint auto manufacturing venture in Fremont, CA. Last summer, I wrote a post about the strong possibility of Toyota’s closing the plant (NUMMI: Things Are Looking Gloomy). The …
Posted in Manufacturing, Small business, supply chain
Tagged Lean, lean supply chain
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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: …
The game of risk: keeping supplier risk at bay
What steps can you take to avoid supply risk? Be methodical and be proactive. Segment the supply base for risk. And look beyond just the obvious categories. First, look at all types of suppliers who have risk potential, depending on …
Posted in Business, Lean, Risk, supplier performance, Supply Management
Tagged Lean, procurement, Risk, supplier performance, supply chain, Supply Management, supply risk
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Segmenting the Supply Base for Lean
In a rush of enthusiasm about a lean supply chain, some firms expect that their suppliers will embrace lean with equal passion. Passion for lean can be contagious, but getting suppliers to adopt lean requires much more work than lean …
Lean supply chains and the white spaces
In an effort to flow lean to suppliers, firms are often internally focused. They are concerned with how suppliers can support their needs and tend not to view the situation from a systems perspective. Often it is about what suppliers …