Detailing the role of senior management in achieving a successful transformation to organizational excellence, Simple Excellence: Organizing and Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation charts a course of simplification through the complexity often associated with managing performance improvement initiatives. It spells out the roles of key individuals on the management team―including those from sales and marketing, human resources, purchasing/supply chain, information technology, finance, and engineering. Maintaining a focus on the big picture, this book explains what value streams are and how to use them to structure your business so that all stakeholders are aligned with what matters most. It reduces constraint management to its most practical terms and lays out a sound approach to accounting that enables everyone to spend money where it adds value and stop spending where it doesn’t. <ul>
<li>Drive your management team with dedicated allegience to the concept of value enhancement</li> <li>Propel your organization to higher performance through the employment of Lean culture and decision-making principles </li> <li>Enact management structures needed to put new ways of thinking into play</li> <li>Focus on the bottom line with the right performance metrics </li> </ul>
Written by respected authorities with extensive experience helping leading organizations achieve Lean transformation, the text includes case studies from high-profile organizations recognized for operational excellence. Addressing human resources management practices, it explains how to manage the day-to-day operations and pricing factory capabilities for the greatest possible profits. It also discusses the ongoing process of strategic planning to help you move away from annual goal setting, toward a dynamic process of engaging the entire company in the effort to provide your customers with an improved sense of value.

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Zak, Adam

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In his newest book, Lean blogger, speaker, and consultant, Bill Waddell, breaks down the entire supply chain, not just materials coming in or going out but also how materials flow through the factory as a part of the supply chain. Written in sections to address specific aspects of the supply chain, The Supply Chain Manager's Handbook is a reference book to be used by supply chain managers when confronted with obstacles in their supply chain as well as by senior managers to learn how the supply chain works and to make sure that the supply chain strategy is inline with the overall business strategy.Primarily a Lean thinker, Bill does address Lean supply chain philosophy, as well as presenting his own system of leveling out production in order to meet demand pull needs in factories that mix make-to-order and make-to-stock products. However, this book approaches the supply chain not from a "Lean" approach or "Standard" approach but from the viewpoint of the supply chain as the lifeblood of the company and that any decision made concerning one part of the supply chain (whether made using the "Lean" or "Standard" school of thought) will have an impact on other areas of the supply chain.This book is intended to help supply chain and senior managers view the supply chain as a whole, as an interconnected system that has a very real impact on the overall health of the company, and to help those managers make the best decisions for their company.

The Supply Chain Manager's Handbook: For Small and Medium Sized Manufacturers

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