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Feeding the beast: getting your order to Amazon on time
Amazon is increasingly demanding of the retailers and brands that sell it products. Congratulations! Amazon has continued to increase their regular purchases from your company, and things are looking up for the next quarter. Unfortunately, with Amazon’s tighter shipping window, it’s easy to lose much-needed profit from this order to chargebacks. Here are three places where orders might bog down in your system and delay shipment—and how to deal with them.
Let’s Get Serious About Lowering the Water Level
When it comes to the shop floor, every organization embracing lean uses Toyota’s rocks and lake metaphor to talk about improvement: You lower the water level (inventory) to reveal the rocks (obstacles) that prevent you from reaching the ultimate goal of 1x1 flow. People constantly strive to remove inventory and other buffers that hide problems in the various production processes. Now, consider what happens in the office.
Why Visual Management Boards Fail
Organizations pursuing lean often rush to deploy visual management boards. They fill the walls with metrics and charts, performance data and improvement project plans. Sadly, as often as not, these visual boards turn into unattractive wallpaper, unused, unloved, and out of date. The reason that they fail to fulfill expectations is that the necessary groundwork hasn’t yet been laid. 1. They haven’t established the right mindset/culture to support the boards.
Three Reasons Why Visual Management Boards Fail
Organizations pursuing lean often rush to deploy visual management boards. They fill the walls with metrics and charts, performance data and improvement project plans. Sadly, as often as not, these visual boards turn into unattractive wallpaper, unused, unloved, and out of date. The reason that they fail to fulfill expectations is that the necessary groundwork hasn’t yet been laid. 1. They haven’t established the right mindset/culture to support the boards.
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