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Sustainability in Supply Chain Management |
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This article, written by Keivan Zokaei and Professor Peter Hines from the Lean Enterprise Research Centre examines how sustainability in supply chain management might be acheived.
The successful supply chain of tomorrow must take environmental sustainability into account alongside economic competitiveness. Leading companies such as Interface Corp., Toyota, Tesco, Mark & Spencer and Walkers crisps have not only saved the environment by investing in greening their supply chains but also have saved themselves heaps of money and banked consumers’ goodwill. Nevertheless the existing supply chain toolbox is geared around making ever more efficient chains and largely neglects carbon as the currency of the future. To read the full article, please click here.
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How do you focus on customer needs? How do you create a lean enterprise in an SME? How do you do lean in a service environment? How do you link improvement with realistic forecasts of the profit you will create from them? These are just a few of the questions answered in this article on the Lean transformation of Main Motors, a UK based auto dealer. To read or download a pdf, click here.
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This document builds on 'The Lean Business Model' (also found in this section of our website) and explains what we mean by Strategy Deployment, and how it is implemented. Click here to download the paper.
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The Development of Supply Chain Relationships |
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The last few decades have witnessed the rise of research into Supply Chain Management and relationships within it. However, in many cases previous research has taken a single-lens approach to understanding and explaining what is happening as well as in subsequently developing solutions.
The research reported here seeks to take a multi-lens approach to relationships in the supply chain using a complete farm to retail food supply chain as an instrumental case.
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From Continuous Improvement to Organisational Learning |
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This document sets out an overview of what is needed for sustainable continuous improvement in a Lean environment. It goes beyond simplistic images of Lean tools and techniques to explain how an understanding of the system dynamics of improvement is essential, how this is connected to the management tasks of making changes and the leadership challenge of creating the environment in which learning will take place.
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