RWD allows you to operate your
supply chain as a demand-driven pull system, with customers pulling product or
service. Processes connecting suppliers and their customers possess waste or
non-value added activities for many reasons, both internal to the company and
external. Being able to recognize, prioritize and eliminate this waste is a
specific skill many organizations seek to develop. RWD’s specialty is utilizing
the Lean principles as taught by the Toyota Production System (TPS) within
global organizations and markets, to reduce the waste in their operations and
those of their suppliers, thereby improving their operating performance and
profitability.
Optimizing the Lean supply chain may
include addressing many of the same issues that have resulted in extra and
unnecessary time, inventory and costs. Supply chain optimization ensures that
the right product is available when it is needed, where it is needed, and in
the right quantity, without excess inventory or extraordinary efforts, such as
expediting, in the supply chain.
To assist organizations with
developing a Lean supply chain, RWD partners with your procurement, operations,
supply chain and quality organizations to assess the processes through which
you interact with suppliers, assess an individual supplier’s performance,
establish performance improvement targets, strategies and plans, as well as
provide coaching and training support to transform opportunity into reality.
RWD’s expertise has enabled
organizations to optimize the design and performance of suppliers, the business
processes that connect them, and the internal and external logistics processes
through which they deliver.
Supply Chain Training and Consulting
Services:
- Supplier Development
- Supplier Cost Reduction
- Supplier Quality Assurance
- Material Management Systems
- Internal/External Logistics Planning
- Business Process Design
- Material
Presentation/Packaging/Distribution Design
- Warehouse Layout and Process Design
- Supplier Measurement and Assessment
Process Design
- Productivity Modeling
- Rapid Improvement Events
- Internal Team Training and
Development