Business Process Improvement

Lean
"How will you sustain the improvement to your organization?"

Lean is designed to increase speed of delivery for customer demand. It also builds quality and visual management controls into the production system to reduce waste in producing value to the customer.

Lean is designed to increase speed of delivery for customer demand. It also builds quality and visual management controls into the production system to reduce the waste in producing value to the customer. Establishing delivery methods which are only executed when demand signals are sent by customers, helps to ensure that companies do not mismanage their valuable resources of inventory, time and capacity. Producing value driven products or services at the pull of the customer will ensure that your customers get what they need in the time they need it.

Systematically, lean can be viewed as the core philosophy of the production system. Typically, management of production is set up as a ‘Push’ system, which is heavily reliant on forecast accuracy to ensure timely delivery and synchronization of processes. Lean uses a ‘Pull’ methodology. By allowing the customer to pull products at Point of Use, the replenishment system is then ‘back filled’ to that POU point with visual management by the use of Kanban systems. The lean design allows a quick, agile and highly responsive system to focus on value for the customer.