Cardinal Health has posted my article on their website: Creating a New “Gold Standard” – Healthcare Supply Chain Best Practices from Other Industries You can view the original webinar on which this article is based: [Recording] Webinar on Creating Better…
Thanks again to Cardinal Health for sponsoring the webinar that I did with them and Fierce Healthcare on supply chain best practices from other industries. We’ve also collaborated to create a two-page PDF article that’s a complement to the webinar:…
I’m excited to announce that I’m presenting a webinar at no cost to you on September 22nd, sponsored by Cardinal Health and hosted by FierceHealthcare.com: Creating a New “Gold Standard” – Healthcare Supply Chain Best Practices from Other Industries Update:…
Mark’s note: Today’s post is something that Drew Locher originally published in his email newsletter (sign up here), but he’s allowing me to post it here. I’ve met Drew through the Lean Enterprise Institute, as we’re both LEI faculty members, and…
On Friday, there was yet another Wall Street Journal article about Lean (fixating as they always do on the “Just In Time” component). The article titled “For Lean Factories, No Buffer” yet again takes an outdated 1980s view that Lean…
I saw this article last week in the USA Today while traveling, with the online headline “Products nipped, tucked to save.” That headline makes me think first of old fashioned cost cutting – which in these economic times often means…
OK, so I’ll admit I had a case of “rabbit ears” when I took the WSJ to task for calling the doomed BP Deepwater Horizon rig a “lean” operation. They were using the colloquial everyday use of “lean,” a term…
Mark’s note: Today’s guest blogger is Jim Huntzinger, the organizer of many topical Lean Summits including Lean Accounting, Training Within Industry, and Lean and Green. We talked about Lean Accounting in Podcast #33. In this post, Jim talks about a…
Lean… and saving green – Materials Management in Healthcare Mag Here’s an article in a healthcare trade publication that features the Lean improvements from two hospitals: LeBonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis (featured in my book, Lean Hospitals, and Kingston General…
Episode #74 is a discussion with Roy Vasher, President of RPV Consulting, LLC and is co-author the book Toyota’s Supply Chain Management: A Strategic Approach to Toyota’s Renowned System. Roy works closely with a network of consultants to provide lean…
SHIPPING, SHIPBUILDING AND OFFSHORE NEWS Toyota’s overproduction and inventory emergency (thanks to Jason for the tip): Toyota is currently renting a ship in the Swedish port of Malmö: to store 2,500 unsold autos. “It’s an emergency measure that we had…
Campbell Soup Cools as Grocers Cut Stocks – WSJ.com: Saw an article yesterday about Campbell Soup sales falling because retailers, including Wal-Mart were being more efficient in their supply chain and inventory management. Makes sense to me. Tom Schoewe, chief…
