Delivering excellent service to all customers is the key imperative for many sustainable businesses. So why do so many supply chains struggle to fulfill customer requirements at competitive costs? The answer is simple: traditional supply chain planning, which was tailored to a predominantly stable and predictable business environment, cannot handle the new challenges in the world of variability, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity-the VUCA world.

Companies can either accept the drawbacks that often result in high inventories, poor asset utilization, and unsatisfactory customer service or, they can change their view of the fundamental approach to supply chain management. LEAN Supply Chain Planning: The New Supply Chain Management Paradigm for Process Industries to Master Today's VUCA World introduces a new paradigm and a new approach to managing variability, uncertainty, and complexity in today's planning processes and systems.

Introducing a cutting-edge supply chain management concept that addresses current problems in the process industry's supply chains, the book presents powerful methods developed by leading research institutes, process industry champions, and supply chain experts. It explains how readers can change their approach to the fundamental planning paradigms in a manner that will help their organizations achieve higher levels of responsiveness, improved levels of customer service, and substantial increases in cost-efficiencies.

This holistic practitioner's guide describes how to establish the right accountabilities for performance management and also provides a set of meaningful metrics to help measure your progress. Supplying detailed guidelines for transforming your supply chain, it includes first-hand reports of leading organizations that have already adopted some of the facets of this paradigm and used the relevant instruments to achieve unprecedented improvements to customer service, supply chain agility, and overall equipment effectiveness.

Reviews

Our Lean Supply Chain Visibility initiative reshaped our operations and supply chain management operating model with fundamental new global capabilities to realize end-to-end lean and agile supply chains and a step change in information systems.-Andy Evans, Head of Global SC Planning, AstraZeneca
It is not about improving the accuracy of the forecast and reducing the amount of uncertainty in the future, it is about eliminating the need for certainty.
- Ronald W. Bohl, Senior Director of Supply Chain, Eli Lilly

Controlling and monitoring of inventory has long been fully integrated into supply chain functions. Transportation and warehousing cost management are also key tasks for supply chain managers. From an end-to-end perspective, what really counts is what remains visible and measurable for our customers. It is not only about key performance indicators and delivery service but also the ability to properly communicate accurate and meaningful supply chain information in a multi-cultural and cross-functional environment across geographies.-Christophe Vidonne, Head of Supply Chain Management, and Dr. Ralph Billo, Head of Global Supply Chain Management at Novartis AH

There is no better planning concept than the Rhythm Wheel, I am convinced of this.

-Andre Wulff, former Planning Head, AstraZeneca Germany

To meet our challenging goals we need a systematic and scientific approach for sustainable improvement of our processes. LEAN SCM is developing and providing the roadmap.

-Thomas Semlinger, Head of Production PCI Europe / BASF Construction Chemicals E-EBE

If your company lives through a lean journey, this book will be a helpful compass throughout all the stages of it.-David Smith, Executive Vice President of Operations, AstraZeneca



Book Information
ISBN 9781482205336
Author Josef Packowski
Format Hardback
Page Count 496
Imprint Apple Academic Press Inc.
Publisher Apple Academic Press Inc.
Weight(grams) 985g