Delivering excellent service to all customers is the key imperative for many sustainable businesses. So why do so many supply chains struggle to fulfill customer requirements at competitive costs? The answer is simple: traditional supply chain planning, which was tailored to a predominantly stable and predictable business environment, cannot handle the new challenges in the world of variability, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity—the VUCA world.
Companies can either accept the drawbacks that often result in high inventories, poor asset utilization, and unsatisfactory customer service or, they can change their view of the fundamental approach to supply chain management. LEAN Supply Chain Planning: The New Supply Chain Management Paradigm for Process Industries to Master Today’s VUCA World introduces a new paradigm and a new approach to managing variability, uncertainty, and complexity in today’s planning processes and systems.
Introducing a cutting-edge supply chain management concept that addresses current problems in the process industry's supply chains, the book presents powerful methods developed by leading research institutes, process industry champions, and supply chain experts. It explains how readers can change their approach to the fundamental planning paradigms in a manner that will help their organizations achieve higher levels of responsiveness, improved levels of customer service, and substantial increases in cost-efficiencies.
This holistic practitioner’s guide describes how to establish the right accountabilities for performance management and also provides a set of meaningful metrics to help measure your progress. Supplying detailed guidelines for transforming your supply chain, it includes first-hand reports of leading organizations that have already adopted some of the facets of this paradigm and used the relevant instruments to achieve unprecedented improvements to customer service, supply chain agility, and overall equipment effectiveness.
Introduction : What the Book is All About
Readers Guide
About the Author and the Motivation for This Book
Acknowledgments
Part I : Why Lean SCM Today?
Chapter 1 : Supply Chain Management in Process Industries
Chapter 2 : Guiding Principles of Lean SCM Planning : Facing VUCA Challenges
Chapter 3 : Fundamentals of Lean SCM Planning : A Paradigm Shift in Planning
Part II : How to Design and Build Lean SCM
Chapter 4 : Prepare Your Supply Chain for Lean SCM
Chapter 5 : Strategic Lean Supply Chain Planning Configuration
Chapter 6 : Tactical Lean Supply Chain Planning Parameterization
Chapter 7 : Operational Lean Supply Chain Planning Execution
Part III : What to Implement and Transform for Lean SCM
Chapter 8 : Build an Organization for Lean SCM
Chapter 9 : Performance Management for Lean SCM
Chapter 10 : The Planning System Landscape for Lean SCM
Chapter 11 : The Lean SCM Journey
Part IV : How Your Industry Peers Gained Benefits by Lean SCM
Chapter 12 : Read How Top-Industry Players Share Their Experiences with Lean SCM
Bibliography
Index
