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Follow on Google News | Why the Supply Chain Needs to Embrace Lean Manufacturing Principles According to Narayan LakshamWhy the Supply Chain Needs to Embrace Lean Manufacturing Principles According to Narayan Laksham
By: TR Cutler Ultriva focuses on leaning the supply chain. One of the fastest and most important factors to apply lean manufacturing principles to the material replenishment process is establishing a pull system. The underlying methodology for implementing a pull system is referred to as kanban, and historically kanban has always been used as a manual card-based system. Paper-based kanban was new and revolutionary 30 years ago; it worked well when manufacturing was vertically integrated and suppliers were located within a short radius. The current global, 24/7 fast-paced environment where manufacturing is far less integrated and suppliers are located on nearly every continent renders the manual kanban card system obsolete. Demonstrating agility and responsiveness to this new manufacturing alacrity was part of facing the changing realities of the supply chain. Ultriva pioneered the electronic kanban which turns the manual card system into a powerful closed-loop kanban through supplier collaboration and the real-time flow of order, shipment and receipt information. Ultriva maintains the visual nature of Kanban while guaranteeing “no lost cards” or “no duplicate cards.” The electronic Kanban is workflow-controlled to keep track of who did what, when and where. This allows several metrics to be automatically computed. To read the entire blog, go to: http://web.ultriva.com/ About Ultriva Ultriva (www.ultriva.com) empowers leading industrial, automotive, healthcare, aerospace, and defense businesses to operate more effectively and collaboratively by providing real time visibility and targeted actionable intelligence into inventory and material flows. Ultriva’s cloud-based platform leverages and seamlessly integrates with leading ERP and MRP systems, to deliver an end to end pull based replenishment model for a wide variety of industry sectors and enterprises such as ATK, CareFusion, Emerson, Ingersoll Rand, McKesson, Magellan, Regal Beloit, Thermo Fisher and more. Few Commercial-off- Ultriva, Inc. www.ultriva.com Cynthia Leonard Marketing Executive cynthial@ultriva.com 408.961.2495 End
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