Lean Logistics: The Nuts and Bolts of Delivering Materials and GoodsAre your warehouses full while production is stopped by shortages? Do your customers complain that your lead times are too long and deliveries too late? Lean Logistics: The Nuts and Bolts of Delivering Materials and Goods by Michel Baudin helps you determine whether you have the right supply to meet your customers’ demands, as well as the ability to organize and deliver that supply. In this cutting edge work, Baudin addresses the physical infrastructure of lean logistics and the flow of information that composes its nervous system. He demonstrates the methods that will allow you to avoid shortages while maintaining low inventories, while showing you how to take advantage of the increased capacity and flexibility generated through lean manufacturing. This book picks up where the Baudin’s previous book, Lean Assembly, left off. |
Contents
A guided tour | 1 |
Overview of lean logistics | 7 |
The lean approach to logistics | 27 |
Docktodock material flows inside the plant | 47 |
Warehousing strategies and devices | 73 |
Warehouse management | 89 |
Warehousing materials WIP and finished good | 109 |
Material flow in the supply chain chain | 129 |
Hybrid and electronic pull signals | 249 |
Kanban operating policies | 265 |
Scheduling principles | 271 |
Scheduling lines with setups between products | 281 |
Leveled sequencing of mixedflow assembly | 303 |
Production planning and forecasting | 311 |
Business relationships in a supply network | 331 |
Suppliercustomer relationships | 341 |
Consolidation centers near the plan | 159 |
Packaging and returnable containers | 171 |
Logistics information systems | 197 |
Manual pull signals | 223 |
Supplier support | 353 |
Where should you go from here? | 371 |