Office furniture maker, Herman Miller, explains how the company has introduced lean manufacturing across the business to shorten lead times, increase efficiency and reduce costs, and how it uses IT to support the lean movement
Office furniture manufacturer Herman Miller has manufacturing and distribution centres in North America, the UK and Asia, alongside sales offices, dealers and licensees in North America, Asia/Pacific, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. Sales for 2007 reached $1.9 billion. Like most companies in the office furniture industry, it has been dogged by long lead…
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