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Richard Kunst - Enterprise Value Stream Mapping
Lean Practitioners globally use this powerful tool to create “Eyes for Flow” and “Eyes for Waste”. The power of this tool that will enable you to answer the following questions:
- What does the customer really need?
- How often will we check our performance to customer needs?
- Which steps create value and which are waste?
- How can we flow work with fewer interruptions?
- How do we control work between interruptions?
- How will work be prioritized?
- How will we balance the work load and/or different activities?
- What process improvements will be necessary?
James Cairns - New opportunities to take out cost from the supply chain created by the convergence of overseas and domestic markets.
- Cost savings for steamship lines, importers and domestic shippers created by efficient use of steamship line assets in domestic lanes.
- "Virtual" container yard concept. Potential to take out 25% of total supply chain costs!
- The changing trade balance between Canada and the US creates the "perfect storm" for expansion of the domestic repositioning program.
- Opportunity to realize transportation savings by efficient use of protective service equipment supplemented by steam ship assets.
Kevin McCarthy – Supply Chains: Strategies for Savings
- Optimization
- Benchmarking
- Constraint Based Bids
- Consolidation, Tours and Continuous Moves
Alan Berdowski and Natasha Renaud – Grand & Toy’s Journey Towards Sustainability: From Strategy to Action
- Achieving competitive sustainable advantage
- “Smart Start” driven within a competitive framework
- Grand & Toy leadership in making sustainable changes within the marketplace
- Operational requirements for change
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