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My presentation at Supply Chain & Logistics 2015 - Whitebury (UK) - September 2015

Recording of my presentation at SCL 2015 event at Whitebury about Winshuttle LDM  applied to SCM.

How to Improve and Fulfill Your Supply Chain KPIs

There is a golden rule in process improvements:

“You can only improve a process if you can measure it.”

If you don’t measure before and after implementing a change in a process, you can’t quantify the impact of the change. That’s why we define our KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) in order to have a set of indicators to focus on. Improving these indicators will direct our business processes towards reaching our improvement goals.

To read the full post, follow the original at Winshuttle blog.

How to Continuously Measure and Improve Your Winshuttle Workflow Processes

There is a golden rule in process improvements:

“You can only improve a process if you can measure it”

Without measuring before and after implementing a change in the process, we cannot quantify the impact of the change. This is one of the pillars of the PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) cycle:

To read the full post, follow the original at Winshuttle blog.

A Lean Approach to Managing Your ERP SCM Data

All SCM managers likely face a crossroads, and recent SCM studies show us that:

• 50% of their processes are identified as processes that need to be improved as the market demands more and more.
• 50% recognize that senior management looks to SCM as a strategic part of the company and demands not only cost reduction, but added value from SCM
• 80% see their ERP  as something that delays or stops improvements to their processes with the flexibility they need. Their ERP is a straitjacket that doesn’t allow them to move freely.

To read the full post, follow the original at Winshuttle blog.

Supply Chain Management: Get Lean or Die

Supply Chain Management is an area where the Lean culture is widely present, mainly because it originated and developed in the manufacturing and production processes of Toyota in the 50s to 70s. But Lean SCM professionals that work with complex ERP systems (like SAP or Oracle) live in a paradoxical world:

• Out of the ERP world, they are continuously improving their processes and removing waste around their processes in small incremental steps.
• When they need to improve ERP, they cannot apply these techniques due to the rigidity of the ERP system.

To read the full post, follow the original at Winshuttle blog.

Toyota + General Motors + 1984 = NUMMI

New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) was an automobile manufacturing company in Fremont, California, jointly owned by General Motors and Toyota that opened in 1984 and closed in 2010. It is a great history about applying Lean by GM with Toyota’s help. How one of the worst GM plants became the best one and how this was not leveraged across GM for nearly 10 years. Recently I got exposed to this great podcast where the whole story is covered, really recommended.

Funny one is that some months after closing the factory in 2010 (first Toyota plant to be closed) Tesla reopened it to start Model S production.

More info in the Wikipedia entry for NUMMI.