This book "examines Lean opportunities from the viewpoint of retail strategy, merchandise management, and store and distribution operations, and provides a holistic, systematic approach for identifying and eliminating non-value-added activities. The Lean techniques presented can be applied to...

"Preface This book is designed to walk companies through the implementation of lean manufacturing within their companies. We start with the fundamentals and build upon them to teach all the tools and processes needed to implement lean manufacturing and the Toyota Production System (TPS). We...

Lean enterprise principles -- Kaizen characteristics -- Planning essentials -- Event leadership -- Scoping the event -- Kaizen team formation -- Event logistics -- Pre-event communication -- Final preparations -- Event structure -- Event kickoff -- Documenting the current state -- Identifying...