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1 online resource |
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Previously issued in print: 2007. |
| Contents |
Introduction: When IS Becomes a Partner in your Lean Journey<br> Chapter 1: Lean Basics to Define your Customer Value, Eliminate Wastes, and Align IS<br> Chapter 2: Applying Standardized to Information Systems<br> Chapter 3: Integrate Your Order Entry into the Information Highway<br> Chapter 4: Selecting, Enabling, and Customizing your ERP System<br> Chapter 5: Kanban: A Necessity for Reducing Inventory and Managing Pull with Suppliers<br> Chapter 6: Reshuffling MRP to Align with Kanban and Lean<br> Chapter 7: Mission to Go Live -- Building Teams and Overcoming Barriers<br> Chapter 8: Capturing, Managing, and Sharing Information<br> Chapter 9: Lean Accounting System<br> Appendix I: Seven Steps to Eliminate Standard Cost in Information Systems<br> Appendix II: The Thirteen Guiding Information System Principles |
| Summary |
To enhance and sustain its Lean journey, a company must implement information systems that fully support and enhance the Lean initiative. In Easier, Simpler, Faster: Systems Strategy for Lean IT, Jean Cunningham and Duane Jones introduce the case study of an actual Lean implementation involving the IT system of a mid-size manufacturer, highlighting the IT challenges that the manufacturer faced during the Lean transformation. Winner of aShingo Prize, thisbook will provide you with a broader vision as well as a path to what a Lean system environment will look like for your company. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Biography |
Duane Jones has worn several hats at Lantech, and has served the companyas material handler, engineering change coordinator, and productionscheduler. When Lantech decided to go lean, he became amember of the kaizen team for the lean effort. After implementingLantech's ERP system in 1995, he learned to program (without any previousexperience) and subsequently trained others in the customizationof the new ERP system. Duane then became Lantech's IS TeamLeader, a position he holds to this day. In this capacity, he is responsiblefor hardware, software, and application integration in our company.He has served as consultant to Lantech's European affiliateduring its ERP implementation in 2003 and continues to apply leanprinciples directly within IS as well as in any IS customer projects.While at Lantech, Jean Cunningham was the company CFO andresponsible for corporate services, HR, accounting, information systems,telecom, facilities, and many of the com pany's continuousimprovement activities until 1999. Fluid in project responsibilities,she was appointed project sponsor for implementation of the ERPsystem in 1995 and was also involved with Lantech's very first m anufacturingkaizen events in 1992, geared to im plem ent lean on thefactory shop floor. After leaving Lantech, Jean assumed a similar leanleader position while serving as CFO for a door manufacturing companythat adopted lean as a business strategy. Jean frequently providesconsulting services to companies interested in lean manufacturing, ISimplementation in a lean environment, and lean accounting. |
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Information technology -- Management.
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Business enterprises -- Computer network resources.
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Information resources management -- Economic aspects.
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Industrial efficiency.
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Technologie de l'information -- Gestion. |
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Gestion de l'information -- Aspect économique. |
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Efficience dans l'industrie. |
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Business enterprises -- Computer network resources |
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Industrial efficiency |
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Information technology -- Management |
| Added Author |
Jones, Duane, 1958- author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781563273537 |
| ISBN |
9781000170214 (ePub ebook) |
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1000170217 (ePub ebook) |
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9780429271342 (electronic bk.) |
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0429271344 (electronic bk.) |
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9781482278569 (electronic bk. : PDF) |
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1482278561 (electronic bk. : PDF) |
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9781439837924 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket) |
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1439837929 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket) |
| Standard No. |
10.4324/9781482278569 doi |
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