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Comprehensive new best practices for building sustainable, "green and lean" supply chains, from one of the field's most respected experts
Lean, green supply chain management combines the efficiency that lean technologies deliver with the environmental and cost benefits of sustainability. The Lean Sustainable Supply Chain illuminates the business benefits of combining "lean" and "green," and offers start-to-finish guidance for redesigning company infrastructure and technologies to achieve these benefits. Palevich introduces the essential concepts of lean green supply chain management, illuminating them with a comprehensive case study showing how to manage change, innovation, talent, execution, inventory, warehousing, and transportation. He demonstrates how to integrate supply chain sustainability into business scorecards; make more effective use of third-party providers (3PLs); drive more value from information; build a state-of-the-art forecasting system and share it with suppliers; and much more. He then systematically addresses the full spectrum of technical issues, including forecasting methodologies, the nitty-gritty of supplier integration; business intelligence in event-driven supply chains; carbon tracking; quantifying lean savings; and much more. This book will be an invaluable resource for every business and technical manager, decision-maker, technical specialist, and consultant concerned with lean and green supply chains.
Foreword xi
Preface xvii
Part I: Applied Savings to the Collaborative Supply Chain
Chapter 1: Lean Sustainable Technologies 1
Chapter 2: Warehouse Management System (WMS) 27
Chapter 3: The Use of Radio Frequency Identity Tags in Industry 49
Chapter 4: Transportation Management System (TMS) 77
Chapter 5: Savings of B2B E-commerce 97
Chapter 6: The Introduction of Enterprise Resource Programs (ERP) 121
Chapter 7: Third-Party Provider 137
Chapter 8: Inventory Control 147
Chapter 9: Promotional Forecast System 159
Chapter 10: An Introduction to Distribution Resource Management 165
Chapter 11: Joint Order Allocation 173
Chapter 12: Variable or Fixed Reorder Periods 179
Chapter 13: Furthering Collaboration with Suppliers (CPFR) 199
Chapter 14: Material Handling Technology, Voice Pick, and Pick to Light Technologies 215
Section I: Introduction to an Application of Lean, Green Supply Chain Management External
Chapter 15: The Visual and Visible Supply Chain 239
Chapter 16: Master Data Alignment and Item Synchronization 245
Section II: Introduction to an Application of Lean, Green Supply Chain Management Internal
Chapter 17: Internal Supply Chain 255
Part II: Technical Sections
Chapter 18: A Technical Explanation of Forecasting Systems 275
Chapter 19: Forecasting Methodology and Gamma Smoothing: A Solution to Better Accuracy to Maintain Lean and Green 305
Chapter 20: The Characteristics Needed in a Forecast Program 345
Chapter 21: The New Sustainable EOQ Formula 353
Chapter 22: Consequences of the Industrial Revolution 369
Chapter 23: Different Organizations’ Green Supply Chain Management and LEED 375
Chapter 24: Case Study: Sweetwater Sound 383
Chapter 25: Case Study: Behavioral Health 389
Appendix A: The Summary of the Lean and Green Technologies 407
Index 409