A few years ago, I was advising a mid-sized electronics manufacturer struggling to deliver on customer commitments. Its end-to-end lead time was 32 days, but what mattered wasn’t just the number.

Watermark Living announced a major reduction in the lead time for receipt of custom ordered casual furnishings. The current three-week turnaround from order to shipment is a reduction from the ...

Border States, founded in 1952 and with annual sales of approximately $4.02 billion, has been ranked the sixth largest electrical distributor in the U.S. by Electrical Wholesaling. It is 100% employee ...

This column will introduce a lead-time metric that has seen 20 years of successful application in industry and fits-to-a-T what is needed for Next Generation Lean. This inclusion of suppliers and ...

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ORLANDO, Fla. – Last night on my way out the door from our News 6 studio, I noticed an alert come racing across my phone screen saying “FREEZE WARNING.” It did in fact take me by surprise, especially ...