Lean six sigma for supply chain management : a 10-step solution process /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Martin, James W. (James William), 1952- (Author)
Corporate Author: McGraw-Hill Companies
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : McGraw-Hill Education LLC., [2014], 2014.
Edition:2nd edition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • C. Introduction
  • D. Acknowledgments
  • 1. Using lean six sigma methods to identify and manage supply chain projects
  • Objectives
  • Executive overview
  • Voice-of-the-customer (voc)
  • The 10-step solution process
  • Understanding how your process works
  • Strategic project execution in the 10-step solution process (steps 1 through 3)
  • Strategic project selection
  • Lean six sigma operational assessments
  • Building the project charter
  • Project planning
  • Project management
  • Identifying lean six sigma projects
  • Summary
  • 2. Deploying lean six sigma projects using lean tools
  • Objectives
  • Lean six sigma project alignment
  • S&op control of lean six sigma projects
  • Lean basics
  • Rapid improvement using kaizen events
  • Lean e-supply integration
  • Summary
  • 3. Demand-management impact on lean six sigma projects
  • Objectives
  • Demand-management overview
  • Sales and operations planning (s&op)
  • Demand aggregation
  • Developing a consensus forecast
  • Master production schedule (mps)
  • Estimating customer demand
  • Product forecasting
  • Measuring forecasting error
  • Forecasting software
  • Impact of new-product forecasts
  • Lean six sigma forecasting applications
  • Summary
  • 4. Lead-time impact on lean six sigma projects
  • Objectives
  • Why reducing lead time is important
  • Lead-time reduction
  • Reducing lead time (example)
  • Summary
  • 5. Lean six sigma applications to manufacturing resource planning
  • Objectives
  • Manufacturing resource planning
  • Mrp high-level functions
  • Capacity requirements
  • Mrp-specific functions
  • Hybrid mrp systems
  • Lean six sigma mrp applications
  • Summary
  • 6. Identifying lean six sigma projects using inventory models
  • Objectives
  • Inventory basics
  • Building system models
  • Inventory models
  • Perpetual-inventory model (fixed-order-quantity model)
  • Miscellaneous inventory topics
  • Lean six sigma inventory applications
  • Summary
  • 7. Lean supply chains and third-party logistics
  • Objectives
  • Lean supply chain overview
  • Distribution systems
  • Receipt of customer orders
  • Transportation
  • Warehousing
  • Distribution-inventory management
  • Third-party logistics
  • Reverse logistics
  • Food and commodity supply chains
  • Difference between value-flow and value-steam maps
  • Summary
  • 8. Root-cause analysis using six sigma tools (with operations research methods)
  • Objectives
  • Root-cause analysis using the 10-step solution process
  • Big-data analytics
  • Summary
  • 9. Lean six sigma improvement and control
  • Objectives
  • Control strategies (steps 5 through 10)
  • Development of the control strategy
  • Summary
  • 10. Supply chain design for excellence
  • Objectives
  • History of design for six sigma for supply chain operations
  • What is it?
  • Why use it?
  • Define phase: tools and methods
  • Measure phase: tools and methods
  • Analyze phase: tools and methods
  • Design phase: tools and methods
  • Verify phase: tools and methods
  • Applications for supply design
  • Summary
  • A. Conclusion
  • Managing organizational change for lean six sigma deployments
  • The lean six sigma maturity model
  • New trends for supply chain improvement
  • Cloud computing and supply chain virtualization
  • Supply chain security
  • Supply chain sustainability
  • Final thoughts
  • B. Appendix: important supply chain metrics
  • Twelve key metrics
  • Additional lean supply chain metrics.