Chapter 14Lean Six Sigma Logistics

By Robert Martichenko of Transfreight1

The previous chapter described how you could bring both suppliers and distributors/dealers into your "extended supply chain" and make even further gains in process speed and quality of information and performance. Given faster lead times and lower inventories, you now have an opportunity to reduce the cost and improve the quality of performance of your logistics network. What capabilities do you think Lean Six Sigma offers to the logistics network? Do you think Lean Six Sigma …

1. Is a strategy to bring raw materials into a manufacturing facility exactly as the facility is running out of that ...

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