Introducing the Five Principles of Lean
Lean Thinking is built upon 5 essential principles. This is the first of a 6-part series of short videos about the Five Principles of Lean.
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James Gilmer posted an eventTales of Lean ERP: Value Realized by Real Customers at Your PC
May 16, 2013 from 11am to 12:15pm
Register and join us May 16th from 11am - 12pm EST.eBECS will walk through Lean processes deployed at real customers, along with the value the transition brought, and then how Dynamics AX supported those Lean manufacturing processes. Register now to watch this anecdotal approach to how the Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP solution was used. Lean manufacturing companies have spent years and much blood, sweat and tears to…See More
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The purpose of this site is to facilitate the exploration of Lean methodologies and issues within a collaborative community of Lean thought leaders and practitioners.
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The 10 Steps in 10 Minutes Value Stream Map Manual
Posted by John Szemler on December 3, 2012 at 3:53pm 1 Comment 0 Likes
10 Steps in 10 Minutes Value Stream Map Manual - CLICK HERE
A Value Stream Map (VSM) is a visual depiction of the value creation process. It is a key tool for understanding flow and for identifying areas of waste.…
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Review of Run Grow Transform: Integrating Business and Lean IT
Posted by Jim Lloyd on November 27, 2012 at 11:30am 0 Comments 0 Likes
A must read for all executives and managers in all enterprises. Buy Steve Bell's newest book, Run Grow Transform: Integrating Business and Lean IT. Read it. And, implement the many transformative suggestions to improve your bottom line. Read a review by clicking the following link:…
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An ERP System Can Support Make to Order Lean Manufacturing
Posted by John Conwell on November 12, 2012 at 2:30pm 2 Comments 0 Likes
As evidenced by another successful "go-live", an ERP system can support "make to order" (MTO) Lean Manufacturing. This particular international Lean manufacturer produces MTO application-engineered specialty fractional motor and motion products.
Want to know how an ERP can support MTO? Read my article:…
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Import/Migration Options in Microsoft Dynamics Including Data Migration Framework
Posted by Ghulam Nabi on October 24, 2012 at 2:19pm 1 Comment 0 Likes
Business Intelligence (BI) in 5 Days
Posted by Jim Lloyd on October 23, 2012 at 10:00am 0 Comments 0 Likes
What if you could have Business Intelligence (BI) reporting in 5 days? Would this impact plans to improve BI reporting at your company? What if at the end of the 5 days you not only have BI software installed, but users are trained and can generate and print…
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Relaunch of the Lean Center of Excellence
Posted by Deb Wolford on October 1, 2012 at 7:00am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Check out the newly relaunched Lean Center of Excellence website, established by Microsoft and eBECS. The site facilitates the exploration of Lean methodologies and issues within a collaborative community of Lean thought leaders and practitioners.
Highlights of the revised website…
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Lean Manufacturing
Lean manufacturing is a production practice that considers the expenditure of resources for any goal other than the creation of value for the end customer to be wastefull, and a target for elimination. Members will examine issues pertaining to Lean methodologies, principles, core tenants, practices, and trends within the production and manufacturing environment.
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Lean Accounting
Lean Accounting's primary purpose is to support the Lean enterprise as a strategy. There are two main focuses for Lean Accounting. The first is the application of lean methods to a company's accounting, control, and measurement processes. The second focus is to fundamentally change the accounting, control and measurement processes so they motivate lean change and improvment. Members will examine issues pertaining to the application of Lean thinking regarding the day-to-day operations of the financial group.
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Lean Reporting
You focused on Lean principles in your company. But given the demands of managing the business, it can be challenging to maintain momentum over the log haul When you data reporting system support Lean concepts, it will be easier for you to stay consistent with Lean principles. You will need to establish a data based reporting system for managing critical success factors for a businesses. You need an approach that balances serveral perspectives and provides measures that enable you to track performance.
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Lean ERP
Introducing the principles of Lean to an organization means training employees as well as laying out newly configured production lines. Your ERP has a vital roles to play in analyzing existing business practives and potentially restructuring them to operate in a Lean environment. Your ERP organizes the informaiton you need about products, production, facilities, resources, and demand. Having the informaiton organized in a single place of reference is valuable.
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Lean IT
Lean IT is the application of Lean principles to the development and management of information technology (IT) products and services. Its central concern to IT is the elimination of waste; where waste is work that does not provide value to the product or service. The IT function manufactures business services of value to the organization and its customers. Similar to manufacturing, the development of business services entails resource management, demand management, quality control, security issues, and so on. By reducing waste through the application of Lean IT, many companies are driving IT from the confines of a back-office support function to a central role in delivering customer value.
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Lean Sales & Operations Planning
Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is the process that brings together all the plans for the business (customers, sales, marketing, development, manufacturing, sourcing, and financial) into one integrated set of plans. The object is to arrive at a business "Game Plan" to help make decisions, manage and allocate critical resources to meet the business' goals.
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Lean HR
The core of any Lean transformation is built on a commitment to continuous improvement with respect for people. But, the human resource functional organizations is left out of the Lean transformation. This is an oversight that slows the evolution of the lean enterprise considerably. The Lean transformation provides a perfect palette for human resource professionals to supercharge the impact of their key functional areas of responsibility.
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Lean Training & Tips
Use this category to participate in discussions regarding Lean tips and seek out training on Lean topics that apply to Microsoft Dynamics AX. Keep in mind, eBECS, sponsor of the Lean Center of Excellence, wrote the Lean Manufacturing trainning modules in which all Microsoft partners must certify.
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