Glenday, who works at the Lean Enterprise Academy, UK, and helps businesses make Lean transformations, and Sather, who works in customer supply chain for Kimberly-Clark, demonstrate how large
companies can implement Lean Repetitive flexible Supply (RfS) to create a repetitive, fixed, stable plan to improve performance in manufacturing efficiency, quality, and waste and across the
whole supply chain, in addition to acquiring lower inventories and higher customer service. Using stories and examples from Kimberly-Clark and other companies, they show readers how Lean/RfS
can become the foundation for achieving sustainable continuous improvement. They explain the fundamentals of Lean/RfS; what a Lean transformation into a Lean enterprise looks like in terms of
performance, behavior, attitude, and motivation; how to stop the firefighting caused by batch logic; and how to create an approach that focuses on increasing profit margins, improving customer
service, and boosting market share, including tools and techniques like rockbusting, schedule breaks, and niggles, and applications across all business functions. They do not discuss tools like
SMED, TPM, or kanbans. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
