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Lean & Agile Supply Chain / Inventory Modelling

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Step Change Management / Business Process  Reengineering

Continuous Improvement

Procurement (Purchasing & Supplier Management)

IS / IT / e-commerce

Product Management / New Product Introduction  / Quality  Management

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B001. Ownership (improving quality and responsibility)

B002. Education & Training (why training on its own does not work)

B003. Procedures and Documentation (How to avoid a bureaucracy)

B004. Meetings Management (How to manage meetings better)

B005. Level Scheduling (How to avoid computer scheduling systems)

B006. Scarce skills management (How to manage and maintain scarce skills)

B007. Strategic Purchasing 1 (Make vs. Buy, Selecting suppliers, Commercial relationships)

B008. Strategic Purchasing 2 (Supplier communications and logistics, what are you paying for, supplier development)

B009. Visibility of problems through simple and clear processes

B010. Lead-time Reduction (Overview)

B011. Lead time reduction 1. Quality Management

B012. Lead time reduction 2. Batch sizes

B013. Management (effective, competitive, adaptive, innovative, culture, structure, systems, and resources)

B014. Effective Bills of Material Design

B015. Lead time reduction 3. Arrears and Backlogs

B016. The Stand Up Meeting (improving team communications)

B017. Maintaining computer software "The Fix Library" (Prolonging the life of software)

B018. Production Planning and Control The KISS Principle (Overview) (Or how to live without the computer)

B019. Archiving (Or clearing the wood so you can see the trees)

B020. Reducing administration of low value items

B021. Fault Recording and Corrective Action System (Operations Management for Continuous Improvement)

B022. Change Control (managing software, process, procedures and engineering change)

B023. Product Fit For Sale Checklist

B024. Production Planning: The KISS principle: 1. Removing complexity from MRP systems

B025. Version Control (Controlling the design level maintenance process, lot traceability and disaster recovery)

B026. Housekeeping (How to find the things you want and remove the things you do not, permanently)

B027. Killing old and unprofitable products

B028. Production Planning and Control The KISS Principle 2. Removing Complexity from Scheduling Systems)

B029. Bin Discipline (labelling, counting, stock rotation, decanting and consolidation of stock)

B030. Product Standardisation (Possible Short Term Actions)

B031. Competitive Comparison (What do I need to improve?)

B032. IS / IT Policy (Why you should have one, what it covers and how to implement it)

B033. Lead time reduction 4: Stock holding policies (Maintaining enough of the right materials, but not too many)

B034. Escalation Management (Ensuring that problems and decisions receive appropriate management attention)

B035. Out tray management (Reducing lead times and problem resolution times)

B036. Collaborative Engineering (Or why Concurrent Engineering is only half of the story)

B037. Rapid Prototyping (Really understanding customer requirements in engineering and computing)

B038. Product Design Parameters (Designing a Product to deliver what your customers' want & which you can afford)

B039. Defining Project Terms of Reference (Ensuring Successful Projects)

B040. Project Classification (Ensuring that projects have the correct level of management attention)

B041. 21 Barriers to Lean & Agile Manufacturing (Which processes need working on to improve leanness and agility)

B042. Lead Time Reduction 5: Controls Over Data In Planning Systems (How to eliminate GIGO)

B043. Managing Product or Process Development (Establishing a development process)

B044. "TRAP" Rules for Data Collection (How to improve the quality of computer data)

B045. OTIF Measuring & improving on time delivery performance or schedule adherence

B046. Using TAKT Time to Manage your business (Extending the use of Takt time)

B047. Cost Impact Analysis (A new approach to value engineering)

B048. Product Fit for Sale Control (Ensuring products or services are ready for launch)

B049. Project Management in a Nutshell

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