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Adopt A Lean Management Approach In today's dynamic business climate, operations leaders and supply chain professionals are looking for advantages with every decision they make. Lean management is a long-term operational discipline that seeks to improve quality, reduce waste, and optimize opportunities, turning small enhancements into big impacts. When applied correctly, a lean system can produce effective and efficient processes that satisfy customer demands and provide the best solutions for continuous improvement. Lean management principles have played a pivotal role in our commitment to addressing customer challenges.
Better Thinking. Better Process. Better Business.
Optimization efforts begin with some level of reflection, planning, and, most importantly, understanding what problem you are trying to solve.
- Do you have clearly defined and well documented processes?
- Are your processes consistent, repeatable, and error-free?
- Do you know the KPIs needed to gauge the effectiveness of functional areas within your business?
- Do you have a strategy for collecting, interpreting, and acting on the data your business collects?
Raymond Lean Management, built on the proven foundation and principles of the world-renowned Toyota Production System (TPS), is a holistic approach to problem-solving that allows you to standardize processes, track key performance indicators, and make continuous improvements.
Maximize Operational Efficiency and Productivity
Our goal is not only to help you solve problems, but to teach you how to solve them yourself. Through a process of visualization, organization, and standardization, we can show you how to identify inefficiencies and implement changes to improve your workflows and develop your employees.
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Gather And Analyze Data
By gathering data, a lean system can help provide visibility into the current state of an operation. Managers should regularly evaluate the data collected from their operation and adapt accordingly.
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Visualize Improvement Opportunities
Visualization makes a situation easily understood simply by looking at it and can be accomplished with data and tool displays or label and location markings. With visualization, an operation can quickly share information, communicate standards, and identify defects.
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Empower Your Employees
Lean management teaches your workers to spot inefficiencies, errors or potential defects by providing them with practical tools to share ideas and develop solutions. By giving employees the opportunity to implement change, they become more engaged which often leads to higher morale and workforce retention.
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Establish Standardized Work Processes
Standardized work creates clearly defined employee expectations and ensures consistency of both labor and materials. By establishing standardized work processes, companies can help eliminate or reduce non-value-added steps, resulting in higher operational effectiveness.
Raymond Lean Management Success Stories
Whether it's through faster fulfillment, reduced waste, minimized downtime, or improved quality, our team can provide education and consulting on this industry-leading, one-of-a-kind lean management system to ensure you get the most out of your resources, like we did with these customers.
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Hesselbein Tire Co., Inc.
Hesselbein Tire Co., Inc., a leading tire wholesaler in North America, was experiencing high turnover at several of its facilities, leading to inefficient operations, fulfillment errors, and difficulty meeting increased demand.
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Crossroads Community Services
Crossroads Community Services focuses its efforts on feeding those affected by economic and social hardships in North Dallas. In 2019, the food bank expanded its distribution center and wanted to streamline operations to make the most of their volunteers’ time.
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Optimization Before Automation With the collective goal of reducing waste throughout an organization, lean management transforms a company’s culture to focus on improved quality by constantly seeking optimization opportunities. An optimized material handling operation creates more space for product, increases workforce productivity, and leverages intralogistics solutions for the best suitable task. Ultimately, this process results in cost savings that can be reinvested throughout your business, often partially, or even fully, funding the next improvement.
