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Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
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Overview/Description
Anytime you have products sitting in inventory it means your resources are not producing cash flow. Identifying and removing the non-value-added steps and tasks in the supply chain is the key element in effective inventory management. This course examines how Lean businesses seek to integrate their supply chains with their production processes so as to minimize inventory levels, improve the flow of raw materials, and ultimately reduce costs.
Target Audience
Candidates for Black Belt certification; managers/executives overseeing personnel involved in the implementation of Six Sigma in their organization; consultants involved in implementing a Six Sigma proposal; and organizations implementing a Six Sigma project
Prerequisites
Black Belt Certification or Appropriate Black Belt Experience
Expected Duration (hours)
3.0
Lesson Objectivesrecognize examples of the seven types of waste (muda)
identify the inefficient business processes that may cause excessive inventories to exist in a given scenario
recognize how inspection and test operations add value
match the types of strategic initiatives available to deploy Lean supply chain efforts to examples
recognize examples of the key components required for implementing a Lean logistics network
recognize the benefits of being able to identify non-value-added activities in the supply chain
recognize the benefits of reducing cycle time
match each KPA measured by cycle time to examples
match cycle-time tools to situations where they should be used
recognize situations that will help to achieve significant progress in cycle-time reduction
match events in the history of production to the way they contributed to the development of JIT
identify the requirements for achieving JIT
recognize the advantages of using JIT
identify examples of the ideal conditions that should be in place for JIT to work
recognize the advantages of using cellular manufacturing
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oper_01_a02_bs_enus
Non-value-added Steps and Tasks
Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Overview/Description
Anytime you have products sitting in inventory it means your resources are not producing cash flow. Identifying and removing the non-value-added steps and tasks in the supply chain is the key element in effective inventory management. This course examines how Lean businesses seek to integrate their supply chains with their production processes so as to minimize inventory levels, improve the flow of raw materials, and ultimately reduce costs.
Target Audience
Candidates for Black Belt certification; managers/executives overseeing personnel involved in the implementation of Six Sigma in their organization; consultants involved in implementing a Six Sigma proposal; and organizations implementing a Six Sigma project
Prerequisites
Black Belt Certification or Appropriate Black Belt Experience
Expected Duration (hours)
3.0
Lesson Objectives
Non-value-added Steps and Tasks
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