Building a Lean Fullfillment Stream: Rethinking Your Supply Chain and Logistics to Create Maximum Value at Minimum Total Cost

by Robert O. Martichenko, Robert Martichenko, Kevin von Grabe

Building a Lean Fulfillment Stream will change the way you think about your supply chain and logistics networks - giving you a way to act using lean principles to transform and continuously improve. In this pioneering workbook, lean logistics veterans Robert Martichenko and Kevin von Grabe explain step-by-step a comprehensive, real-life implementation process for optimizing your entire fulfillment stream from raw materials to customers, including two critical concepts: calculating the total cost of fulfillment and collaborating with across all functions and firms along the stream. Your company, like most, probably calculates costs at different points within departments, such as the piece price paid by the purchasing department. Few companies figure the total cost associated with each major function across the fulfillment stream. Calculating total cost, which to most executives is surprisingly large, lets you measure the impact of your improvement efforts on operational performance and overall income. Martichenko and von Grabe also give you guidance and tools for collaboration. Using the example company ABE Corp., the authors illustrate how the lean conversion process is a win-win for every company involved. And an accompanying analysis illustrates the financial benefits and shows you how to apply the metrics. The book, supported by 41 charts, maps, and illustrations, shows you: ? How to apply the eight guiding principles for implementing lean fulfillment. ? The seven major types of waste in logistics and supply chains. ? How a fulfillment-stream council of representatives from all companies gives critical guidance and support. ? The "eight rights" for assessing perfect order execution. ? What lean metrics to use, such as why average days on hand of inventory is a better measure than inventory turns. ? How to identify and eliminate waste in shipping, receiving, and yard management.

Genres: Business

111 pages, Spiral-bound

First published September 1, 2010

About the author

Robert Orloe Martichenko was born in Timmins, Ontario, Canada, and has lived in the United States for the past two decades. He is a CEO, entrepreneur, speaker, writer, poet, father, husband, son, brother, nephew, and friend. Robert has a bachelor's degree in mathematics, an MBA, a Six Sigma Black Belt and is the author of several successful business books -- including his debut fictional novel, Drift and Hum, winner of the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for Best First Book Fiction.

PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHY:

Robert Martichenko is the Chief Executive Officer of LeanCor Supply Chain Group.

Robert's entire career has been committed to third-party logistics. Beginning in transportation and warehousing, Robert continued his career learning and implementing Lean and operational excellence with a focus on end to end supply chain management. This experience allowed Robert to found LeanCor for the sole purpose of supporting customers to build and sustain supply chain performance. As an operator and thought leader, LeanCor relentlessly tries to optimize those processes that add value and eliminate those that are waste.

In addition to leading LeanCor, Robert is a senior instructor for the Lean Enterprise Institute and the Georgia Tech Supply Chain and Logistics Institute, as well as a frequent speaker for professional industry groups around the world.

Robert received the 2015 Distinguished Service Award from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), was named a "Pro to Know" by Supply & Demand Chain Executive and a 2014 "Rainmaker" by DC Velocity, and was chosen as a 2015 C-Suite honoree by Venue & LEAD Magazine