7 Principles of Lean Supplies

Posted on 12 Feb 2014 by Tim Brown

A new approach delivering an Efficient Workplace

While many leading manufacturers have been practising Lean for years, there are still gains to be made – especially in overlooked areas like industrial supplies and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

Practicing what we preach Kimberly-Clark is a major manufacturer ourselves. Adopting the Efficient Workplace in our own facilities helped us save £2.2 billion and more than 1.4 million hours of waste across 25 of our own factories in 2011 and 2012. Now we do it for others and it’s a pretty powerful thing. Lean identifies…

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