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Selling in Tough Times with Nick Strober and Melanie Flores

The Logistics of Logistics

Nick is a Senior Account Executive and Team Leader at Lean Solutions Group , and Melanie is the Director of Solutions Consulting at Symtrain. Nick Strober is a Senior Account Executive at Lean Solutions Group , where he is known as a jack of all trades. About Lean Solutions Group. About Nick Strober. 500 Fastest Growing U.S.

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Changing Mental Models

Supply Chain Shaman

I also had the opportunity to speak at the GHX conference and facilitate a leadership workshop on the required changes for implantable devices. Here are some of the quotes from the workshop I led yesterday that helped me to better understand the industry: “A process born out of chaos is chaos. Supply Chain Leader of a Large Hospital.

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Change for the Better: What Kaizen can do for you

USC Consulting Group

Kaizen and lean manufacturing occupy the same theoretical orbit. Be transparent: Leverage accessible performance metrics to propel operational decision-making. Workshop: During a five-day period, team members conceive production improvements, implement them, and then measure shop floor performance to determine their efficacy.

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How emerging brands can emerge quicker with data

crisp

Crisp’s VP of Sales shares advice from a recent workshop with Emerge to help brands grow smarter with data, which is just as important — if not more important — in the early years. Or if your product is moving slowly and you’re heavy in inventory, you can reduce shipments to free up cash and stay lean.

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No Easter Bunny?

Supply Chain Shaman

There is a belief that the efficient response—the tightly integrated lean supply chain—defines supply chain excellence. Chart the course of the team by hosting a workshop where you review the past year and brainstorm/outline the problems the team encountered. The supply chain is reacting on late data with a low level of insights.

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Global Process Excellence: Defining the Roadmap to Achieve Best In Class Results

Supply Chain Game Changer

We needed to lean out the operations and improve our productivity. The mandate we set for each Process team was as follows: Define the current metrics and performance levels for a process (eg. Use Lean/Continuous Improvement process improvement techniques. SupplyChain #Lean #SCM #Leadership #Change. All Rights Reserved.

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A Critical Insight to Successful Supply Chain Planning

Arkieva

In the early 1980s, trolling through AI and OR workshops, we discovered Dr. Karl Kempf from Intel had independently uncovered the importance of this lesson which he continues to use today as clearly the best agent of change of the Modern Era.