Lean Supply Chain Management Essentials

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whole, not very effective. Why? It has ignored basic supply chain concepts, let alone

making Lean much more difficult to achieve.

Unfortunately, these “experts” didn’t understand product costing and all the ele-

ments that make up what is known as a total landed cost. Now, suddenly, after study

after study has refuted their original thesis, they have coined “near sourcing” as the

new end-all/be-all concept and are charging their clients hefty fees to reverse the

damage that they themselves wrought. Lean companies, of course, basically stuck to

their vision of building strong supply chains through close partnerships with their

supp ...