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shared by ISM Silicon Valley on 06 Nov 10 -

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Some pundits have opined that ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) or ERM (Enterprise Resource Management) is dead and that Lean replaces it. That’s like saying that the car chassis is replaced by the new engine. ERP is the backbone system of a modern enterprise. Lean is a management philosophy, with supporting tools and techniques to run a business much faster, cheaper—better. They are NOT mutually exclusive, but Lean ERP must differ from the traditional approach. The chassis needs some design changes.
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shared by ISM Silicon Valley on 25 Jan 10 -

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Bellwether Services, a leading Lean Sourcing, Lean Six Sigma, and Quality Audit solution provider, along with Intesource, the e-Sourcing experts, today announced they will integrate the Intesource full service suite of solutions with Lean Sourcing and Supply Chain best practices to provide end-to-end profit improvement solutions to each of their valued customers.
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By definition, Lean manufacturing is intended to reduce the waste of time and resources that do not directly add value to the business. In manufacturing, this philosophy is most evident on the production line, which is continually analyzed and altered in order to maximize employee talents, reduce time spent on menial tasks, eliminate the waste of raw materials and mitigate duplicative efforts.
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Accounts payable (AP) automation technology achieves three keys benefits that complement the lean manufacturing process: It eliminates waste, optimizes AP workflow to ensure that tasks and responsibilities are clearly defined and executed among the team, and  affords organizations intelligent automation opportunities through integration with the organization’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution.
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Operational excellence is required to make any winning business strategy sustainable, but it is only achieved and sustained through continuous improvement, and these improvements must be real. This book will arm you with the knowledge and methods needed to identify needed change and the tools to implement them, and perhaps most importantly, give you the confidence needed to become an effective change agent.
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shared by ISM Silicon Valley on 06 May 10 -

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In the survey, carried out by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL), respondents from 73 countries were asked whether they should invest in planning and implementing risk-prevention measures, or planning and practicing event-response measures. Fifty-four percent of respondents leaned toward prevention, 30 percent said "both" and 16 percent leaned toward response.
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