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The Lean Sustainable Supply Chain: How to Create a Green Infrastructure with Lean Technologies
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The Lean Sustainable Supply Chain: How to Create a Green Infrastructure with Lean Technologies

by Robert Palevich
January 2012
Intermediate to advanced
450 pages
9h 46m
English
Pearson
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Preface

This book is a summary of the experiences I have had working with many Fortune 500 companies such as GE, 3M, National Manufacturing, Sherwin-Williams, Black & Decker, Manco, and others on collaborative processes. The rationale for this collaboration was that in today’s global economy each company needed to work together to enhance corporate processes to become “Best of Breed.” It is amazing what can be learned from each company during yearly technology sessions when best technologies are shared so that every company reaps the benefits. The ideas and strategies explored in this book form a compendium of those best practices and shared technology over the past 25 years.

The inspiration for writing this book began when I won the award of ...

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