The concept of lean is often primarily associated with the hands-on manufacturing processes. However, the extension of lean into ‘The Big Five’ – transportation, design, procurement warehousing as well as manufacturing is just as, if not more important. Mark Eaton, managing director of Amnis Ltd and fellow of supply chain strategy group IOM explains how.
Lean is an approach to improving businesses that focuses on the elimination of activities that don’t add value to customers. In a commercial setting, this is normally indicated by whether or not the customer would be prepared to pay for the activity. The traditional approach is to understand the end-to-end process within an organisation –…
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