Mandyam Srinivasan combines lean thinking with constraint management to help managers streamline supply chain
Knoxville, TN — May 25, 2005 — Supply chain guru Mandyam Srinivasan is using his new book to highlight a new approach to supply chain management and to help managers identify the key actions they can undertake to improve the performance and profitability of the supply chains in which they work.
Srinivasan's book, Streamlined: 14 Principles for Building & Managing the Lean Supply Chain (South-Western Educational Pub, $69.95), combines lean thinking with constraint management theory to show readers how to eliminate wasteful activities and reduce flow time in the supply chain.
Focusing on the lean supply chain from an operations and logistics perspective, Streamlined covers the activities of all the organizations involved in the flow of products, services, finances and information, from the initial suppliers to the ultimate users.
Throughout the book, Srinivasan emphasizes how managers can best accomplish their supply chain tasks and responsibilities using such conceptual tools as lean thinking and the theory of constraints (TOC). Key concepts are further illustrated with case studies that lead readers through the various processes that need to be covered in building and managing the lean supply chain.
In the book, Srinivasan asserts that, contrary to conventional wisdom that views lean as strictly a cost-cutting measure, lean is indeed a growth strategy. In addition, he offers a treatment of rate-based planning.
Reader Reaction
Terry Sutton, production control manager at Dell, gave the book a thumbs-up, saying: "This book should be a first-read of anyone who is moving into an operations role. It provides all of the steps to running the operation in one easy-to-read book."
Eric Daggett; vice president of aerospace and defense at E2V Technologies, commented: "Streamlined brings home the importance of applying the lean philosophy to all layers of the organization. Too many times professionals outside the manufacturing arena feel that they have no influence on lean applications. However, Srinivasan deftly illustrates that marketing and sales have an important role to play when implementing and managing an efficient lean organization."
"From the entry-level professional to the seasoned manager, readers of Streamlined will be equipped with concepts, tools, and strategies for better-managed logistics and operations," the book's publisher, South-Western Educational Pub, said in announcing the book. "Bottom line: Streamlined helps supply chain managers do their job more effectively."
Srinivasan is the Ball Corporation Distinguished Professor of Business at the University of Tennessee and a former chair for the Lean Research Council at Tennessee. His consulting clients include IBM, Allied-Honeywell, Boeing, Carlisle Group and United Airlines.
Streamlined: 14 Principles for Building & Managing the Lean Supply Chain is available in bookstores and online booksellers.
Additional Articles of Interest
— Lean is still a top priority for many organizations, and now leading enterprises are applying lean principles to the supply chain. Read about the challenges in building a "lean supply chain" in "The Value of Being Out-of-stock (Almost) Everywhere," the Final Thoughts column in the April/May 2005 issue of Supply & Demand Chain Executive.
— To go the distance in business you need to take a disciplined approach. Supply & Demand Chain Executive offers key best practices for making your supply chain hum in the article "7 Habits of Highly Efficient Supply & Demand Chains," the cover story in the April/May 2005 issue of the magazine, featuring an interview with supply chain guru Jim Tompkins of Tompkins Associates.
— When ex-Chrysler chief Thomas T. Stallkamp considers cures for what ails American manufacturing, he chooses not to look inside the four walls of the corporation but to the extended enterprise and the relationships that bind a company to its supply chain partners. Read about Stallkamp's take on the collaboration imperative in "No Company Is an Island," the Executive Memo column in the April/May 2005 issue of Supply & Demand Chain Executive.
Knoxville, TN — May 25, 2005 — Supply chain guru Mandyam Srinivasan is using his new book to highlight a new approach to supply chain management and to help managers identify the key actions they can undertake to improve the performance and profitability of the supply chains in which they work.
Srinivasan's book, Streamlined: 14 Principles for Building & Managing the Lean Supply Chain (South-Western Educational Pub, $69.95), combines lean thinking with constraint management theory to show readers how to eliminate wasteful activities and reduce flow time in the supply chain.
Focusing on the lean supply chain from an operations and logistics perspective, Streamlined covers the activities of all the organizations involved in the flow of products, services, finances and information, from the initial suppliers to the ultimate users.
Throughout the book, Srinivasan emphasizes how managers can best accomplish their supply chain tasks and responsibilities using such conceptual tools as lean thinking and the theory of constraints (TOC). Key concepts are further illustrated with case studies that lead readers through the various processes that need to be covered in building and managing the lean supply chain.
In the book, Srinivasan asserts that, contrary to conventional wisdom that views lean as strictly a cost-cutting measure, lean is indeed a growth strategy. In addition, he offers a treatment of rate-based planning.
Reader Reaction
Terry Sutton, production control manager at Dell, gave the book a thumbs-up, saying: "This book should be a first-read of anyone who is moving into an operations role. It provides all of the steps to running the operation in one easy-to-read book."
Eric Daggett; vice president of aerospace and defense at E2V Technologies, commented: "Streamlined brings home the importance of applying the lean philosophy to all layers of the organization. Too many times professionals outside the manufacturing arena feel that they have no influence on lean applications. However, Srinivasan deftly illustrates that marketing and sales have an important role to play when implementing and managing an efficient lean organization."
"From the entry-level professional to the seasoned manager, readers of Streamlined will be equipped with concepts, tools, and strategies for better-managed logistics and operations," the book's publisher, South-Western Educational Pub, said in announcing the book. "Bottom line: Streamlined helps supply chain managers do their job more effectively."
Srinivasan is the Ball Corporation Distinguished Professor of Business at the University of Tennessee and a former chair for the Lean Research Council at Tennessee. His consulting clients include IBM, Allied-Honeywell, Boeing, Carlisle Group and United Airlines.
Streamlined: 14 Principles for Building & Managing the Lean Supply Chain is available in bookstores and online booksellers.
Additional Articles of Interest
— Lean is still a top priority for many organizations, and now leading enterprises are applying lean principles to the supply chain. Read about the challenges in building a "lean supply chain" in "The Value of Being Out-of-stock (Almost) Everywhere," the Final Thoughts column in the April/May 2005 issue of Supply & Demand Chain Executive.
— To go the distance in business you need to take a disciplined approach. Supply & Demand Chain Executive offers key best practices for making your supply chain hum in the article "7 Habits of Highly Efficient Supply & Demand Chains," the cover story in the April/May 2005 issue of the magazine, featuring an interview with supply chain guru Jim Tompkins of Tompkins Associates.
— When ex-Chrysler chief Thomas T. Stallkamp considers cures for what ails American manufacturing, he chooses not to look inside the four walls of the corporation but to the extended enterprise and the relationships that bind a company to its supply chain partners. Read about Stallkamp's take on the collaboration imperative in "No Company Is an Island," the Executive Memo column in the April/May 2005 issue of Supply & Demand Chain Executive.
