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Lean Sustainable Supply Chain, The: How to Create a Green Infrastructure with Lean Technologies
- By Robert Palevich
- Published Jan 10, 2012 by FT Press. Part of the FT Press Operations Management series.
- Copyright 2012
- Dimensions: 6" x 9"
- Pages: 448
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-13-283761-7
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-283761-3
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Robert Palevich (Fort Wayne, IN) is Director of the Business Enterprise System and Technology (BEST) Center at IPFW School of Business Management, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne. He holds an MBA from Indiana University.
Lean, green supply chain management combines the efficiency that lean technologies deliver with the environmental and cost benefits of sustainability. The Lean Sustainable Supply Chain illuminates the business benefits of combining "lean" and "green," and offers start-to-finish guidance for redesigning company infrastructure and technologies to achieve these benefits. Palevich introduces the essential concepts of lean green supply chain management, illuminating them with a comprehensive case study showing how to manage change, innovation, talent, execution, inventory, warehousing, and transportation. He demonstrates how to integrate supply chain sustainability into business scorecards; make more effective use of third-party providers (3PLs); drive more value from information; build a state-of-the-art forecasting system and share it with suppliers; and much more. He then systematically addresses the full spectrum of technical issues, including forecasting methodologies, the nitty-gritty of supplier integration; business intelligence in event-driven supply chains; carbon tracking; quantifying lean savings; and much more. This book will be an invaluable resource for every business and technical manager, decision-maker, technical specialist, and consultant concerned with lean and green supply chains.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Going lean leads to going green, By
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The fundamental premise of this book is a simple one that is often overshadowed by political posturing and wrangling. That premise is that going green is a natural business tactic, for in general the end result is the saving of money for the organization. When used to refer to business, "lean" generally means the tightening of operations, reducing costs and improving efficiency, and that will in most cases lead to an improvement of the bottom line.The supply chain is the sequence of actors and events that sequentially execute to bring a product from the point where it is the form of unprocessed raw materials to where it moves out the door as a sale. What Palevich does in this book is set down three types of supply chains. They are: *) Collaborative supply chain *) External supply chain *) Internal supply chain For each of these chains, Palevich describes the general form that it has and the points where efficiency improvements can be made. Each... Read more
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
A good textbook that highlights money saving operations procedures~, By
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If you are employed with a large company, then there is probably some sort of money saving lean infrastructure protocol in place. If not, then this might be a good way to explore some money saving options. If you are expanding a smaller business, or even in a small retail operation, then there is some quality information contained in this text.And don't mistake it, this is a textbook. The layout, design, style, and writing are all geared towards a work course style format. Being such, it is often dry and unengaging. But the information is well documented and easily accessible. Granted, a lot of these protocols are common sense, but it's nice to get the numbers that are the proof, rather than looking at the bigger picture and guessing what seems the right direction. Basically the money saving steps are to save on the supply chain wherever you can. If you look at a company like Amazon for example, you can see the epitome of lean supply chain (regional... Read more 
Written Like a Textbook, By
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In this book Robert Palevich explains how organizations can go lean in their supply chain while being green at the same time. If you streamline your supply chain so that you're using less fuel, your cars are on the highways less, thus You're green. Actually, I see his point, less fuel, means less pollution and if your trucks spend less time on the roads, the government spends less time, money and energy repairing them. This book if full of examples like that.However, the book is written like a textbook and is kind of dry and hard to get into because of the stilted writing. That being said, the information can both save a large retail operation a lot of money, while allowing it to go green, so it's a win win for everybody, the company saves money and Earth breathes a little easier. |
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Table of Contents
Foreword xi
Preface xvii
Part I: Applied Savings to the Collaborative Supply Chain
Chapter 1: Lean Sustainable Technologies 1
Chapter 2: Warehouse Management System (WMS) 27
Chapter 3: The Use of Radio Frequency Identity Tags in Industry 49
Chapter 4: Transportation Management System (TMS) 77
Chapter 5: Savings of B2B E-commerce 97
Chapter 6: The Introduction of Enterprise Resource Programs (ERP) 121
Chapter 7: Third-Party Provider 137
Chapter 8: Inventory Control 147
Chapter 9: Promotional Forecast System 159
Chapter 10: An Introduction to Distribution Resource Management 165
Chapter 11: Joint Order Allocation 173
Chapter 12: Variable or Fixed Reorder Periods 179
Chapter 13: Furthering Collaboration with Suppliers (CPFR) 199
Chapter 14: Material Handling Technology, Voice Pick, and Pick to Light Technologies 215
Section I: Introduction to an Application of Lean, Green Supply Chain Management External
Chapter 15: The Visual and Visible Supply Chain 239
Chapter 16: Master Data Alignment and Item Synchronization 245
Section II: Introduction to an Application of Lean, Green Supply Chain Management Internal
Chapter 17: Internal Supply Chain 255
Part II: Technical Sections
Chapter 18: A Technical Explanation of Forecasting Systems 275
Chapter 19: Forecasting Methodology and Gamma Smoothing: A Solution to Better Accuracy to Maintain Lean and Green 305
Chapter 20: The Characteristics Needed in a Forecast Program 345
Chapter 21: The New Sustainable EOQ Formula 353
Chapter 22: Consequences of the Industrial Revolution 369
Chapter 23: Different Organizations’ Green Supply Chain Management and LEED 375
Chapter 24: Case Study: Sweetwater Sound 383
Chapter 25: Case Study: Behavioral Health 389
Appendix A: The Summary of the Lean and Green Technologies 407
Index 409
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