article thumbnail

5 Skills Necessary For Maximizing Logistics Effectiveness

GlobalTranz

Be ready to rationalize the process of Six Sigma within your organization. The tools and techniques of Six Sigma put team’s heads together and stimulate innovation. The tools and techniques of Six Sigma put team’s heads together and stimulate innovation. Focus on quality is not a bureaucracy.

article thumbnail

5 Keys to Implementing Improvement Initiatives

The Logistics of Logistics

My particular improvement soapbox is Lean Management with some Six Sigma thrown in for good measure. The principles can be applied to anything, just like Lean and Six Sigma. He states that innovation is really just a remix of existing parts. Many measurements are sacred to the board or other metric owners.

Six Sigma 133
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

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

article thumbnail

25 Lean Manufacturing Tools – 5S, Six Sigma & Beyond

Unleashed

More satisfied workers can lead to greater business innovation and agility. Lean Six Sigma Six Sigma is a set of methodologies first devised by Motorola in the 1980s, designed to improve the quality of Motorola’s products to the point where defects were so rare as to be statistically insignificant. COGS targets.

article thumbnail

5 Best Logistics Books to Keep Within Reach

Supply Chain Opz

The Supply Chain Revolution: Innovative Sourcing and Logistics for a Fiercely Competitive World Pros: This book will show you how to plan and execute sourcing strategies like the world's leading companies. He also co-authored 5 logistics and supply chain books and supervised many six sigma and lean projects.

article thumbnail

How Shippers And Logistics Providers Can Keep The Relationship Fresh

Talking Logistics

When you focus just on fulfilling the original need, you judge success based on that incremental approach to yesterday’s problem and stop innovating. To thrive in today’s dynamic supply chain environment, it’s critical to continue challenging the status quo and to proactively find ways to drive innovation and optimization.

article thumbnail

The 3 Most Common Warehouse Receiving Challenges – and How to Solve Them

AB&R

Deploying mobile receiving carts in conjunction with Lean Six Sigma processes will substantially improve warehouse receiving metrics by reducing redundant procedures, optimizing inventory access, eliminating waste, and mobilizing your workforce. Conclusion.

article thumbnail

How to Sustain a Lean Culture in Manufacturing & Supply Chain

GlobalTranz

The focus is to eliminate all wastes in the organization, improve processes, solve root cause problems, create a pull environment, and ensure that Lean Six Sigma (LSS) works for quality and daily problem solving using DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control) and PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, and Act). Why are we doing this?