article thumbnail

Sourcing Strategy: Effective vs Efficient with Ron Crabtree

The Logistics of Logistics

Mr. Crabtree is a Master Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, a Certified Supply Chain Transformation Architect and an expert in effective change management, facilitation, and communications. MetaExperts are talent operational excellence (OpEx) hands-on-deck, training, and get-it-done partners. About MetaOps and MetaExperts.

article thumbnail

How vehicle customization will drive the supply chain of the future

Kinaxis

With so much manufacturing happening and so much cut-throat competition, the money to be made in the automotive world is not just in producing the cars by the thousands. By profession a mechanical and industrial engineer, Farhan Mirza has worked several years in General Motors from manufacturing to purchasing, supply quality and launch.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Navigating Automotive Disruption: Eliminate Bottlenecks in your Supply Chain and Lean-out Operations to free-up Working Capital for R&D

ThroughPut

The Automotive Industry is being disrupted on all sides and is upending the traditional models of vehicle manufacturing that have evolved over the past 120 years to dominate the world. But the Automotive industry’s massive scale can also be its savior in an age of unprecedented disruption across multiple fronts.

article thumbnail

Podcast: Susie Bodnar on the CSCMP and the New Directional Shifts in Supply Chain

Requis

Now we’re developing some excellent online platforms. Yet panic buying created a shortage because supply chains of such items are not built to be agile and to react to an unprecedented spike in demand. Looking forward, how do you see supply chain adapting to the effects of COVID-19? We’re experiencing the bullwhip effect.

article thumbnail

Why a Product-Centric Approach to Quality Matters

Arena Solutions

Angenette has more than 24 years of experience in quality assurance, quality control, Lean Six Sigma, and supply chain. She spent most of those years in the healthcare industry and recently spent time in the automotive industry. I would say in automotive, certainly medical device, a product-centric approach is required today.

Quality 52
article thumbnail

23 warehouse pros reveal the best ways for warehouses to control & reduce fulfillment costs

6 River Systems

Paul is a highly experienced supply chain leader, with a 20-year background in supply chain management including the delivery of more than 60 consulting projects in the retail, defense, automotive, food, utilities and mining sectors. Inventory provides an excellent example of a cost indicator that should be measured and continuously improved.