Integration of Lean manufacturing and SCM


0
1.Reduce the supply base
-Reduce the number of suppliers for each commodity of purchases to a minimum, a few or often only one.

2. Develop strategic long term partners

-Develop supplier partners, especially in the commodities key to the company’s growth and future success.
-Plan and execute for a long term relationship and exchange information.

3. Manage supplier with commodity teams

-Involve cross functional teams for strategic issues with key suppliers.
-Above will help in considering total cost than immediate price in purchase decisions.

4. Certify suppliers

-Create and use a certification process that challenges suppliers and make them proud to be certified.
-Ensue that the certification process contains the criteria important to your company.
-Recognize certified suppliers publicly.

5. Connect to suppliers with Internet Technologies

-Exchange data pertaining to quality, schedules, engineering change, prototypes and pilot runs, return goods, order status, capacity planning, etc.
-Customize web page for key suppliers.

6. Collaborate with suppliers

-Make buying decisions based on total cost of ownership.
-Inform suppliers as soon as new orders arrive.
-Eliminate incoming inspection.
-Buy complete, tested subassemblies.
-Let suppliers choose where to buy components from an approved list.
-Give incentives to companies to locate their plants nearby to reduce delivery time and encourage frequent , small  daily deliveries.
-Train and help suppliers to be compatible with their production systems.
-Certify suppliers and eliminate incoming inspection.
-Let  suppliers choose where to buy components from an approved list.

7. Outsource for right reason

– Focus on ore competencies and outsource the rest.

-Purchase completed assemblies, tested and reedy to go on the assembly line.

-Allow suppliers to participate in design and subsequently build and test assemblies.
-Provide suppliers drawings, blue prints and other information quickly.

Like it? Share with your friends!

0
BMS Team

We, at BMS.co.in, believe in sharing knowledge and giving quality information to our BMS students. We are here to provide and update you with every details required by you BMSites! If you want to join us, please mail to [email protected].

154 Comments


Warning: Undefined array key "html5" in /home/bmsnewco/public_html/wp-content/plugins/facebook-comments-plugin/class-frontend.php on line 140

Facebook comments:

This Website Is For Sale. Email us an offer we cannot refuse on [email protected] :)

X
Choose A Format
Personality quiz
Series of questions that intends to reveal something about the personality
Trivia quiz
Series of questions with right and wrong answers that intends to check knowledge
Poll
Voting to make decisions or determine opinions
Story
Formatted Text with Embeds and Visuals
List
The Classic Internet Listicles
Countdown
The Classic Internet Countdowns
Open List
Submit your own item and vote up for the best submission
Ranked List
Upvote or downvote to decide the best list item
Meme
Upload your own images to make custom memes
Video
Youtube and Vimeo Embeds
Audio
Soundcloud or Mixcloud Embeds
Image
Photo or GIF
Gif
GIF format