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

part |2 pages

Part I: Suppliers or Partners?

chapter 1|8 pages

Does This Stuff Really Work?

chapter 2|6 pages

The Supplier Development Philosophy

chapter 3|10 pages

Key Players in Supplier Development

part |2 pages

Part II: Internal Operations Essential to External Supplier Development

chapter 5|8 pages

The Importance of Internal Operations

chapter 6|14 pages

The Plan for Every Part (PFEP)

part |2 pages

Part III: The True Cost Model

chapter 7|6 pages

True Cost Thought Process

chapter 8|8 pages

Change Cost

chapter 9|12 pages

Ongoing Cost

chapter 10|4 pages

Risk Cost

chapter 11|18 pages

True Cost Sourcing

part |2 pages

Part IV: Interactions between Lean Customers and Partners

chapter 13|8 pages

Receiving Product

chapter 14|6 pages

Packaging

part |2 pages

Part V: Develop a Supplier into a Partner

chapter 15|10 pages

The Partner Development Team

chapter 16|10 pages

The Value Stream Mapping Methodology

chapter 17|6 pages

The Quarterly Review Process

chapter |2 pages

Afterword