http://www.techforecasters.com/weblog/archives/lean-tales-from-distribution-and-component-manufacturing/ Read what our thought leaders are thinking, in our every-other-Friday TFI blog entries. Sign up with your favorite RSS Feed service and get an automated alert whenever there's a new posting to the TFI Weblog. Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:09:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.techforecasters.com/weblog/archives/lean-tales-from-distribution-and-component-manufacturing/comment-page-1/#comment-671 Bill Roberts Fri, 04 May 2007 17:42:32 +0000 http://www.techforecasters.com/weblog/archives/lean-tales-from-distribution-and-component-manufacturing/#comment-671 Dory--Interesting insight. Sounds like a business opportunity for someone... bill Dory–Interesting insight. Sounds like a business opportunity for someone…
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]]> http://www.techforecasters.com/weblog/archives/lean-tales-from-distribution-and-component-manufacturing/comment-page-1/#comment-670 Dory Meynert Fri, 04 May 2007 17:22:26 +0000 http://www.techforecasters.com/weblog/archives/lean-tales-from-distribution-and-component-manufacturing/#comment-670 For non-Tier 1 OEM and EMS companies, one of the largest challenges in implementing lean relates to component packaging. As the execution size of builds becomes smaller (build only what you sell), the reel sizes and MPQs need to scale accordingly. I think this could be an area where distribution and component manufacturers are perceived to be lagging behind on implementing Lean thinking. For non-Tier 1 OEM and EMS companies, one of the largest challenges in implementing lean relates to component packaging. As the execution size of builds becomes smaller (build only what you sell), the reel sizes and MPQs need to scale accordingly. I think this could be an area where distribution and component manufacturers are perceived to be lagging behind on implementing Lean thinking.

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