Orchestrating the Lean Transformation and Leveraging Mobility

Description

In today's cutthroat manufacturing environment, companies need to do significantly more with significantly less resources.  Lean, with low-cost simplicity as a basis, should have lasting power. It doesn't, according to global research showing long-term growth of finished-goods inventories and increased lead times for most manufacturers (including many with acclaimed lean credentials). This is largely due to narrow vision: applying lean more for the sake of operational efficiency than for quick response all the way to end customers.

A key prescription is equipping and operating factories for concurrent production -- toward the lean ideal of continuous replenishment based on daily sales from downstream customers, or same-day production of every customer order.  Mobile technology is increasingly being utilized as a way to deliver results.  Regardless of whether you're in the warehouse, on the road, or onsite for a sale, mobility is more than merely a buzzword. It's fast becoming a way to improve business processes, which in turn eliminates waste and generates real value across your business.

Another is intensive silo-busting collaboration, both within the company and outward to supplier and customer entities.  An enabler is redefining and promoting lean for its natural customer-side competitive benefits, while treating waste elimination as a valued methodology rather than lean's essence.  If you're frustrated with lag time in paperwork processing, inaccurate data, or lack of inventory or fleet information, learn how mobile technology is breaking down these barriers and allowing manufacturing organizations to make smarter decisions.

In this webinar we will explore how manufacturers are becoming more lean, incorporating mobile technology to:

• Reduce inventory and cycle times -- by ensuring more accurate and real time inventory levels are maintained
• Be more responsive to customer requests and changes in demand
• Streamline maintenance processes through the elimination of paper and deployment of tablet technologies
• and more

Companies are eliminating waste and delivering more value to their customers thanks to continuous replenishment and silo-busting collaboration.  Learn how mobile technology can help you make progress toward these goals.

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Speakers

Dr. Richard Schonberger
President
Schonberger & Associates

Richard Schonberger, Ph.D., is president of Schonberger & Associates of Seattle, providing seminars and advisory services to industrial and service organizations worldwide.  He is author of over 170 articles and papers, a 12-volume video set and several books.

Schonberger is the originator of the now widely-used term "world class manufacturing" and its supporting concepts.

Among his current activities, Dr. Schonberger is director of The Leanness Studies, an on-going tracking of inventory turnover data for more than 1,200 companies in 33 countries;  as well as an international benchmarking research project called World Class by Principles (WCP), with assisting research partners in leading nations globally.

Sam Lakkundi
Chief Mobile Officer
Kony

As the company's Chief Mobile Office leader, Sam Lakkundi helps to shape Kony's strategy, business vision and growth by working with Kony executives and engineering worldwide. He is responsible for defining Kony's mobile roadmap, product strategy, business strategy and the overall mobile infrastructure working closely with the office of the CEO and the CTO. Sam helps guide Kony's strategic decisions and ensures that the business units and the divisions are supported by sound operational, strategic, market and financial analysis.

Sam joined Kony from Sybase, a SAP company, where he served in a series of roles in management, business development, pre-sales and training, over the course of a 15-year tenure. Sam has extensive experience working with enterprise mobile software and working with large enterprises to help architect and implement their mobile solutions. Sam attended Harvard, earned a Bachelor of Science degree from MTU and also has a Master's in Business Administration and a Master of Science degree from SNHU.