For many large and midsize manufacturers, the challenge of enabling the corporatewide enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to mesh with their lean initiatives on the plant floor requires a ...

Lean manufacturing, which originated as the Toyota Production System, is one of the most well-known process strategies in modern manufacturing. It migrated to the U.S. in the 1950s and began to draw ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

It’s not another "flavor of the month" or one more program that senior management tries in the quest for greater efficiency. Instead, lean enterprise offers significant company and customer benefits ...

I often hear executives say that localized lean is not enough and they are going to implement enterprise lean. What I believe they are saying is that they have started a lean program, or seen a lean ...

Managing diverse and highly variable production across multiple sites is a complex jigsaw puzzle for any manufacturer. Can it be solved with Excel spreadsheets? That's what we used to do at KLN Family ...

Corey Eastman is a Director at Climax Media, a digital technology agency who specialize in building customized platforms for enterprise clients. This post originally appeared on the Climax Media blog.

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There is an obscure accounting battle bubbling up around the world that has broad implications for how to run a business. The battle begins when a company starts to implement "lean manufacturing," a ...