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About the Item
Speed to market, reducing costs, and accelerating lead times are vital for survival in today’s competitive environment. This “how to” book illustrates how to integrate Lean, Six Sigma and Logistics into a cohesive process that will help you eliminate unnecessary inventories through disciplined efforts to understand and reduce variation, while increasing speed and flow in the supply chain. Lean Six Sigma Logistics provides the vehicle to solidify strategic position, win over customers, and achieve increased profit margins. It is the one book that executives, practitioners, consultants and academics will all want on their bookshelf. |
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Key Features
Provides a method to develop strategies as well as tactical steps for successful operational implementation of Lean Six Sigma Logistics
Teaches you to uncover, calculate, and reduce total logistics costs
Addresses top management concerns while providing all the necessary tools and guidance on how to use them for the logistics practitioner
Covers the technical issues as well as the leadership aspects of Lean Six Sigma Logistics
Presents definitive answers for improving operations, making customers happy, and reducing costs and variability and includes a case study that can be used to teach and coach employees or students
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About the Author(s)
Dr. Thomas Goldsby is experienced practitioner and consultant and currently an Assistant Professor of Marketing and Logistics at The Ohio State University. He is a published author in numerous well know professional and academic journals such as Supply Chain Management Review, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Business Logistics, International Journal of Logistics Management, International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, Management Science among others. He is a member of the Distribution Management Association; the Education Strategies Committee for the Council of Logistics; Subcommittee on Collaborative Transportation Management for the VICS Association, Faculty Advisor to the Operations and Logistics Management Association. He is a sought after speaker and on the editorial review board for the International Journal of Logistics Management.
Robert Martichenko is President of LeanCor LLC, headquartered in Burlington, Kentucky. LeanCor delivers Logistics and Supply Chain Management services to organizations embracing Lean production principles. Robert is a certified Six Sigma Blackbelt and he has over ten years of transportation, consulting and third party logistics experience which includes multiple operational launches such as the “green field” start up at Toyota Motor Manufacturing. Mr. Martichenko is also an active instructor of Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Lean and Six Sigma programs offered by the Lean Enterprise Institute and Saint Louis University - John Cook School of Business. He is an experienced author who currently sits on the Editorial Advisory Board of “Logistics Quarterly” magazine and is past President of the Cincinnati Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Roundtable and now serves as a regional advisor.
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Table of Contents
Section I: Lean Six Sigma Logistics: Why Bother?
Chapter 1 - What is Lean Six Sigma Logistics?
Chapter 2 - The Importance of Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Section II: The Logistics Wastes
Chapter 3 - The Waste of Inventory
Chapter 4 - The Waste of Transportation
Chapter 5 - The Waste of Space and Facilities
Chapter 6 - The Waste of Time
Chapter 7 - The Waste of Packaging
Chapter 8 - The Waste of Administration
Chapter 9 - The Waste of Knowledge
Section III: The Logistics Bridge Model
Chapter 10 - A Tour of the Bridge
Chapter 11 - Flow - Asset Flow
Chapter 12 - Flow - Information Flow
Chapter 13 - Flow - Financial Flow
Chapter 14 - Capability - Predictability
Chapter 15 - Capability - Stability
Chapter 16 - Capability - Visibility
Chapter 17 - Discipline - Collaboration
Chapter 18 - Discipline - Systems Optimization
Chapter 19 - Discipline - Waste Elimination
Section IV: Building the Bridge: Lean Six Sigma Logistics Tools
Chapter 20 - Strategy and Planning Tools
Chapter 21 - Problem-Solving Tools
Chapter 22 - Operational Tools
Chapter 23 - Measurement Tools
Chapter 24 - Case Study
Chapter 25 - Summary and Conclusion
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