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Logistics improvement in healthcare generates gains that can save lives
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Logistics improvement in healthcare generates gains that can save lives

See how a hospital's lean successes inspired an entire Health Department to introduce changes in its processes that generated gains in cost, time and quality.

  • Lean strategy
  • Healthcare
  • Equipe do Instituto de Oncologia do Vale
  • 7 min read
  • 7/19/2022
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Creating value through reverse logistics
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Creating value through reverse logistics

Lean thinking enables a value-creation perspective on reverse logistics, with an application more centered on the customer experience and on leading the development of new markets.

  • Lean fundamentals
  • Logistics and Supply Chain
  • Alvair Silveira Torres Júnior
  • 11 min read
  • 5/31/2022
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What lean thinking reveals about logistics problems
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What lean thinking reveals about logistics problems

How lean thinking helps us find a more efficient and effective path to dealing with problems.

  • Lean fundamentals
  • Logistics and Supply Chain
  • Alvair Silveira Torres Júnior
  • 11 min read
  • 4/29/2022
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Lean purchasing intelligence to boost results
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Lean purchasing intelligence to boost results

How lean management can make the purchasing area strategic, innovative and optimized within an organization.

  • Lean fundamentals
  • Services
  • Elmar Costa
  • 6 min read
  • 8/5/2021
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Problems and limits
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Problems and limits

Looking back at the lean journeys he has witnessed firsthand, the author concludes that a true lean transformation happens when you establish mentoring for the "Thinking People System".

  • Lean culture
  • Logistics and Supply Chain
  • Michael Ballé
  • 7 min read
  • 7/20/2021
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A truly lean purchasing department
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A truly lean purchasing department

Understand how lean management can transform the traditional vision and practice of the purchasing area to make it strategic, innovative and optimized

  • Lean strategy
  • Services
  • Flávio Augusto Picchi
  • 7 min read
  • 7/14/2021
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The five forces of lean logistics in X2C
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The five forces of lean logistics in X2C

Understand how lean logistics can contribute to today's X2C scenario based on five driving forces of flow design: the 5 As.

  • Lean strategy
  • Logistics and Supply Chain
  • Alvair Silveira Torres Júnior
  • 15 min read
  • 7/7/2021
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Innovation in Human Resources Management in Logistics: understanding the needs of logistics professionals
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Innovation in Human Resources Management in Logistics: understanding the needs of logistics professionals

In this article we describe a new way of providing qualification in lean practices in logistics, aimed at professionals in various areas of logistics and supply chain. Besides achieving operational targets, this new way of qualifying workers also innovates by offering the flexibility of distance training.

  • People, HR and development
  • Logistics and Supply Chain
  • Alvair Silveira Torres Júnior
  • 10 min read
  • 3/22/2021
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Synchronizing material flow with demand: a lean application case at a metalworking company
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Synchronizing material flow with demand: a lean application case at a metalworking company

Aligning demand with supply is often a crucial success factor. However, planning to meet this new scenario can be complicated, requiring a great deal of strategy and an organized sequence of activities, but lean philosophy can help.

  • Lean fundamentals
  • Logistics and Supply Chain
  • Adionil Jose Fumagali Junior
  • 14 min read
  • 11/17/2020
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Lean logistics solutions:  Sustaining omnichannel retail
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Lean logistics solutions: Sustaining omnichannel retail

Follow the case of an omnichannel retailer that applied lean logistics together with digital connections and achieved excellent results in its operation.

  • Lean fundamentals
  • Logistics and Supply Chain
  • Alvair Silveira Torres Júnior
  • 15 min read
  • 9/14/2020
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Canceling out distance
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Canceling out distance

What do you do when you operate in a competitive market and are located in a remote corner of Europe, thousands of kilometers from your customer? One word: lean.

  • Lean culture
  • Logistics and Supply Chain
  • José Ignacio Garcia Cornejo
  • 9 min read
  • 8/20/2020
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Covid-19 will require supply chain management to evolve
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Covid-19 will require supply chain management to evolve

The pandemic has called into question some concepts related to these chains and is already starting to bring changes that will probably be incorporated into new trends, even after the hardest period of the crisis

  • Lean strategy
  • Logistics and Supply Chain
  • Flávio Augusto Picchi
  • 3 min read
  • 5/13/2020
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