A free webinar plus Q&A with Jim Womack, Lean Enterprise Institute founder and senior advisor, and Dan Jones, founding chairman of the Lean Enterprise Academy (UK)
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What a difference a decade makes in supply-chain management.Back in 2002, when Dan Jones and Jim Womack were preparing the first edition of Seeing the Whole, the workbook that introduced a methodology for mapping value streams across companies and countries, managers were rushing to de-integrate supply chains by outsourcing and offshoring. Companies searched the globe for suppliers who would quote dramatically lower piece-part prices.
Today the situation is very different. Currencies have shifted, labor costs in many low-wage countries have risen steadily, and suppliers in high-wage countries have gone out of business.
Companies are being forced to do what they should have done 10 years ago: understand and improve the underlying value-creation process that they share with suppliers and customers to reduce total costs and provide better value for customers.
But how?
Join Dan and Jim November 29, 2011, at 2 p.m. (Eastern) for a free webinar on extended value-stream mapping, a proven methodology for analyzing supply streams across organizations and countries.They'll also discuss the new essays on improving extended value streams from the just-released, revised second edition of Seeing the Whole Value Stream.
You'll learn:
- Why now is the right time to map your extended supply chain.
- How extended value-stream mapping impacts the off-shoring debate.
- What extended value-stream mapping is; how it links to the value-stream mapping tool explained in the Learning to See workbook.
- How real companies – retailers, distributors, manufacturers, component suppliers, parts suppliers, raw material suppliers – can jointly manage and improve their shared value streams to create more value for customers with less time, effort, cost, and chaos for every firm along the value stream.
- How to expand your focus from one product family (one value stream) to all the value streams contributing to a complete product.
Who Benefits From This Webinar:
- Senior managers, purchasing managers, sales managers trying to change the discussion with customers from price to value, lean implementation leaders, logistics managers, supply-chain managers.
- Suppliers to manufacturing and service companies pursuing lean transformations
- Companies that are ready to spread lean transformations beyond the four walls of their facilities to suppliers and customers.
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