Fix Your Supply Chain : How to Create a Sustainable Lean Improvement Roadmap

Written by business leaders for business leaders, this book explores successful supply chain improvement requirements and improvement methodologies, along with their strengths and limitations. It covers the use of these techniques in a story about Twin City Manufacturing, a fictitious company based on the authors’ actual experiences. The principles put forth in this volume show how to enable and sustain long-term change.Whether you are intimately familiar with the supply chain discipline or have limited experience, the authors provide a valuable roadmap that can be applied to supply chain improvement. Drawing from their combined 70 years of experience with supply chain–related functions, they explore seven factors that can help a company become one of the few that truly achieve and maintain operational excellence.

1. Top company leadership
2. Improvement methodology
3. Continuous improvement strategy
4. The cause and the vision
5. The Sustainable Improvement Roadmap
6. Enablement of sustainability
7. Constancy of purpose

Preface
Introduction

Chapter 1 : The Seven Components of Sustainable Supply Chain Improvement
Chapter 2 : Improvement Methodologies Six Sigma, Lean, Theory of Constraints, and SCOR
Chapter 3 : Sustainable Improvement Roadmap Comparing Continuous Improvement Strategies
Chapter 4 : The Role of the CEO : Creating the Vision
Chapter 5 : The Role of the CEO and Leadership Team Implementing the Methodology
Chapter 6 : The Role of Leadership in Creating a Sustainable Improvement Roadmap
Chapter 7 : The Role of Absolute Commitment in Creating and Maintaining Sustainable Improvement

References
About the Authors
Index