ABSTRACT
In the global marketplace, no business is a self-contained island. No matter how effective your internal material movement, to be a future-thinking business, you must go to the next step and develop long-term supplier partnerships built on a dedication to continuous improvement and the basic concepts of Lean implementation. Lean Supplier Developmen
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I: Suppliers or Partners?
part |2 pages
Part II: Internal Operations Essential to External Supplier Development
part |2 pages
Part III: The True Cost Model
part |2 pages
Part IV: Interactions between Lean Customers and Partners
part |2 pages
Part V: Develop a Supplier into a Partner