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Is your supply chain running Lean?

A lean supply chain defines how a well-designed supply chain should operate, delivering products quickly to the end customer, with minimum waste. A lean supply chain is a great enabler for any organisation that strives to become more productive and efficient thereby lowering costs.

Organisations within a lean supply chain are able to leverage their own lean journey more easily delivering better customer value by responding more quickly, efficiently and predictably to customer needs. That, in turn, facilitates the operation of the lean supply chain, creating a virtuous cycle that ultimately translates to superior financial performance.

The Steps for building a Lean Supply Chain
These 7 steps have been recently applied by several organisations in their lean journey, to increase their competitive advantage and profitability, while at the same time enabling their supply chain partners to become more efficient and productive. In guiding you through this process, our Lean consultants will take you through the following steps:

  • Lean general awareness
  • Team performance areas & effective team meetings
  • Lean metrics & measures
  • Workplace organisation
  • Structured problem solving
  • Business process re-engineering
  • Value stream mapping



Contact Lean Consulting

Our team of lean consultants will empower the staff in your business with the expertise and tools to continuously improve and add value to your customers.

Roy Faurie
Tel: +27 (0) 861 933 393
Cell: +27 (0) 83 634 1008
Email: roy.faurie@vscsolutions.co.za

David Levin
Tel: +27 (0) 861 933 393
Cell: +27 (0) 82 331 4374
Email: david.levin@vscsolutions.co.za

Solutions

Why adopt lean transformation


An adaptive and responsive organisation is able to
"anticipate customer moves" and respond accordingly
thus providing clarity and insight into our primary revenue
streams allowing us to stay in business in an ever changing business climate.

Lean

Lean Philosophy

All we are doing is looking at the timeline from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing that timeline by removing the non-value-added wastes.

Taichii Ohno, Former Executive Vice President,
Toyota Motor Corporation

Airfreight imports came together and it was noted that some of us did not use certain reports. It was then decided to use one particular report and ever since then, the client serviceoffering improved, as this report saved phone calls and unnecessary running around.Like one of our members told me, work smarter and not harder and that clearly highlighted team spirit and it made a world of difference!

Customer Quote

Resources

pdf  Customer Journey Mapping (0.9 MB)
pdf  Lean Structured Problem Solving (1.5 MB)
pdf  Lean Supply Chain (1.5 MB)
pdf  Policy Formulation (0.8 MB)
pdf  Value Stream (0.8 MB)
pdf  Workshop Facilitation (0.9 MB)