Purpose

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Focus

  • Design, implement, and manage lean supply chain networks
  • Lead customers on their lean journey
  • Develop and deploy innovative lean supply chain strategies
  • Build a learning organization that embraces lean principles
  • Grow by investing in people, processes, and tools
  • Educate and train the supply chain management industry in all aspects of lean

Values

  • Lean Thinkers and Doers: We are the academic practitioners of lean logistics and supply chain management. We are committed to constantly create, disseminate, and implement advancements in lean supply chain methods.
  • Customers Play a Critical Role: Listening to the customer must come first in all we do. We develop products, processes, and people based upon their wants and needs to successfully grow our company.
  • Brilliant Processes = Brilliant Results: We focus on the process to achieve maximum results. The principles of flow, standard work, quality at the source, and visual management guide the way we think. The Plan, Do, Check, Adjust (PDCA) cycle is used to persistently perfect all processes.
  • “No Problem” is a Problem: We believe everything can be improved and are never satisfied with the status quo. We constantly expose and solve problems at their root cause in order to learn and make sustainable improvements every day.
  • People and Teamwork: We are fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and competitive. We are only as good as our people and thus are committed to their development as lean supply chain and problem solving experts.