{"id":6,"date":"2006-06-15T11:25:29","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T16:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=6"},"modified":"2006-08-15T08:34:27","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T13:34:27","slug":"thinking-lean-acting-lean-being-lean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/2006\/06\/15\/supply-chain-management\/thinking-lean-acting-lean-being-lean\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Lean, Acting Lean = Being Lean&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Says Bruce Tompkins in &#8230;<a title=\"Lean Thinking for the Supply Chain\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tompkinsinc.com\/publications\/competitive_edge\/articles\/06-04-Lean_Supply_Chain.asp\">Lean Thinking for the Supply Chain<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><u>A lean supply chain is one that produces just what and how much is needed, when it is needed, and where it is needed.<\/u><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s brevity for you that masks the utter transformation that an entire firm &#8211; its supply chain, manufacturing, personnel, accounting, finance, sales and management, have to go through in order to be lean. And that&#8217;s the destination &#8211; <u>being lean<\/u>.<br \/>\nThere are two conceptual definitions in Lean thinking &#8211; Value and Waste.<br \/>\nWhat is <strong><u>Value<\/u><\/strong>?<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n<\/em><em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Value, in the context of lean, is defined as something that the customer is willing to pay for. Value-adding activities transform materials and information into something a customer wants. Non-value-adding activities consume resources and do not directly contribute to the end result desired by the customer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Says Bruce Tompkins in &#8230;Lean Thinking for the Supply Chain A lean supply chain is one that produces just what and how much is needed, when it is needed, and where it is needed. That&#8217;s brevity for you that masks the utter transformation that an entire firm &#8211; its supply chain, manufacturing, personnel, accounting, finance, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lean","category-supply-chain-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->