Lean
Logistics: The Nuts and Bolts of Delivering Materials and Goods
Author: Michel Baudin
Product Code: 2962
ISBN: 1-56327-296-2
Publisher: Productivity Press
Published: 2005
Pages: 350
Binding: Hard Cover
Dimensions: 6 1/4" X 9 1/4" X 1"
Illustrated: Yes
Pages Description: figures/tables/photographs/index
Price: US $50.00
Are your warehouses full while production is stopped by shortages? Do
you know what you have, and when the next replenishments will come?
Do your customers complain that your lead times are too long and that
your deliveries are late? Does the volume of your logistics activity
vary erratically?
Lean Logistics: The Nuts and Bolts of Delivering Materials
and Goods by Michel Baudin addresses these issues, both the physical
infrastructure of lean logistics and the information flows that compose
its nervous system, as well as innovative approaches to supplier relations.
Find out how to avoid shortages while maintaining low inventories and
take advantage of the increased capacity and flexibility generated through
lean manufacturing.
This book picks up where the author's previous book,
Lean Assembly, left off — it clearly discusses and illustrates
how to deliver parts efficiently to assemblers, and the correct process
for finished goods after completion.
Lean Logistics completely covers manufacturing logistics,
including its interaction with production control.
Table of Contents
PART I: Overview of Lean Logistics
Chapter 1: What is Lean Logistics?
Chapter 2: The Lean Approach to Logistics
PART II: Dock-to-Dock Logistics inside the Plant
Chapter 3: Transportation Inside the Plant
Chapter 4: Warehousing Strategies and Devices
Chapter 5: Warehousing Management
Chapter 6: Warehousing Materials, WIPS, and Finished Goods
PART III: Material Flows in the Supply Chain
Chapter 7: Supplier Milk Runs
Chapter 8: Consolidation Centers Near the Plant
Chapter 9: Packaging and Returnable Containers
PART IV: Logistics Information Systems
Chapter 10: Pull Systems
Chapter 11: Manual Pull Signals
Chapter 12: Hybrid and Electronic Pull Signals
Chapter 13: Kanban Operating Policies
Chapter 14: Scheduling Principles
Chapter 15: Scheduling Lines with Setups Between Products
Chapter 16: Leveled Sequencing of Mixed-Flow Assembly
Chapter 17: Production Planning and Forecasting
PART V: Business Relationships in a Supply Network
Chapter 18: Third-Party Logistics
Chapter 19: Supplier-Customer Relationships
Chapter 20: Supplier Support
Where should you go from here?
Bibliography
Index
Reviews
Review
Harvard Business School
- February 9, 2006
"Topics include warehousing, inbound and outbound logistics, the
advantage of milk runs, consolidation centers, returnable containers,
pull systems, operating policies, product sequencing, and master scheduling.
The book is meaty but accessible, with plenty of helpful diagrams, charts,
and photos."
Review Industrial Engineer Magazine, December 2005 -
December 13, 2005
"This nuts-and-bolts instructional text covers the details of physical
distribution, customer-supplier relationships, and production control
information flows. The book addresses waste-production issues and illustrates
how to avoid shortages while maintaining low inventories as well as
how to take advantage of the increased capacity and flexibility generated
through lean manufacturing."
Review By: Kiyoshi Suzaki, Author - January 25, 2005
"For anyone keenly interested in lean manufacturing, and hence
eliminating waste, Lean Logistics provides a practical guide to streamlining
operations. Establishing an adequate flow of materials, at the right
time and place, must occur where information is turned into intelligence
and value-adding activity takes place. In this process, improving the
quality, cost and delivery performance are foremost while the safety
and morale of people are also recognized. By viewing Baudin’s
techniques as tools to use in striving for this ideal, the astute reader
should study this book and experiment with its ideas.…"
Review Quality Digest, April 2005 - May 13, 2005
"…Baudin completely covers the details of distribution, customer-supplier
relationships and production control information flows."
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