Comments on: LeanBlog Podcast #79 – Eve Yen, CEO of Diamond Wipes http://www.leanblog.org/2009/11/leanblog-podcast-79-eve-yen-ceo-of-diamond-wipes/ Mark Graban's leanblog.org, Lean Manufacturing, Lean Healthcare, Toyota Production System Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:01:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: What You’re Searching For, January 2010 Edition — Lean Blog http://www.leanblog.org/2009/11/leanblog-podcast-79-eve-yen-ceo-of-diamond-wipes/#comment-6844 What You’re Searching For, January 2010 Edition — Lean Blog Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:01:47 +0000 http://templean5.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/leanblog-podcast-79-eve-yen-ceo-of-diamond-wipes#comment-6844 [...] supply chains. with cheap labor, sometimes comes poor customer responsiveness.  See this link and this one for [...] [...] supply chains. with cheap labor, sometimes comes poor customer responsiveness.  See this link and this one for [...]

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]]> By: Jason Semovoski @jwsems http://www.leanblog.org/2009/11/leanblog-podcast-79-eve-yen-ceo-of-diamond-wipes/#comment-5825 Jason Semovoski @jwsems Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:40:33 +0000 http://templean5.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/leanblog-podcast-79-eve-yen-ceo-of-diamond-wipes#comment-5825 Mark, thank you for taking the time to continue to provide interesting content. I enjoyed Ms. Yen’s interview as it presented a positive business story in a time where all of the media hype is around the negative aspects of business. I also see this as an important lesson to businesses of all sizes who believe the only way to lower expenses is to offshore. We heard this theme repeated many times during the AME conference this year but you can do it by leveraging lean thinking. Its not the easy way but if your goal is to help both your employees and customers, it can been accomplished. Sending manufacturing jobs out of this country is the easy way out for non lean thinkers. Some key points from the interview:1. Production in the US allows shorter lead times 2. Made to order within two weeks where the competition is two to three months 3. They have less inventory, warehouse, and transportation expenses. 4.The lower expenses allow them to pay the higher US wage while creating a fresher product for their customers. They are creating value. Mark, thank you for taking the time to continue to provide interesting content. I enjoyed Ms. Yen’s interview as it presented a positive business story in a time where all of the media hype is around the negative aspects of business. I also see this as an important lesson to businesses of all sizes who believe the only way to lower expenses is to offshore. We heard this theme repeated many times during the AME conference this year but you can do it by leveraging lean thinking. Its not the easy way but if your goal is to help both your employees and customers, it can been accomplished. Sending manufacturing jobs out of this country is the easy way out for non lean thinkers. Some key points from the interview:1. Production in the US allows shorter lead times 2. Made to order within two weeks where the competition is two to three months 3. They have less inventory, warehouse, and transportation expenses. 4.The lower expenses allow them to pay the higher US wage while creating a fresher product for their customers. They are creating value.

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