Improving Supply Chain Performance – Reducing Purchasing Costs Through Better Planning Disciplines

Whether a business is a manufacturing and distribution company or it is a dentist’s office, these businesses all have common supply chain problems associated with…

The Importance of Quality in Successful Lean Implementations

As a seasoned Industrial Engineer and Lean practitioner, I am highly sensitive to the importance of creating and operating efficient businesses and production operations. However,…

Just Purchased a New Business? Don’t Put Off Getting Involved in the Details!

I have spent much of my career working either directly for or as a consultant for private equity-owned businesses. In all cases, I had been…

The Value of Work Teams

In today’s business environment we continually hear about companies restructuring more of their organization’s employees into work teams. This includes the use of teams in…

Using Horse Sense When Understanding Teamwork

This is part two of a two-part story.  Part one of the story, covered two weeks ago, was the narrative of harnessing a young draft…