@ Supply Chain Management

A featured story (in three parts no less) at the Council of Supply Chain Management’s website describes the Theory of Base6 – Successfully implementing the lean supply chain. The authors of the article are Robert Martichenko and Dr. Thomas Goldsby. In the first part of the article, a list of persistent ideas in business are listed on account o fthe fact that these ideas have some value proposition. The list includes:

1. Total Quality Management – Dr. W. Edwards Deming influence
2. Six Sigma – Dr. W. Edwards Deming influence – Motorola and GE developed
3. Lean Manufacturing – Dr. W. Edwards Deming influence -Taiichi Ohno, Eiji Toyoda, Shigeo Shingo, Toyota Motor Manufacturing developed
4. Theory of Constraints – Eliyahu Goldratt
5. ISO Certification – influenced by engineering groups from many countries
6. Good to Great – Jim Collins
7. Seven Habits of Highly Effective People – Steven Covey

Further, they distil the above business ideas around six common themes (hence, i suppose the term Base6) which are:

1. Customer Focus
2. Vision Deployment
3. Process Management
4. Teamwork
5. Quality at the Root
6. Continuous Improvement

Each theme is then expanded briefly in their article. I am waiting for the next part in the series to see how these themes are fleshed out in greater detail and how these themes are linked up towards developing and implementing a lean supply chain.

Categorized as: Reviews_, Lean_, Supply Chain Managment_, Process Management_
Tags: Theory of Base6, Lean, Lean Supply Chain, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints, ISO, Quality, Continuous Improvement