Description
For your lean transformation to be successful, your IT system must support it! To enhance and sustain its lean journey, a company must implement information systems that fully support and enhance the lean initiative. In Easier, Simpler, Faster: Systems Strategy for Lean IT, Jean Cunningham and Duane Jones introduce the case study of an actual lean implementation involving the IT system of a mid-size manufacturer, highlighting the IT challenges that the manufacturer faced during the lean transformation. This book will provide you with a broader vision as well as a path to what a lean system environment will look like for your company. Acknowledgments — Introduction — Lantech, Lean, and IS: Why This Book Was Written — Beginning Your Journey: IS, IT, and ERP — All Value Streams Are Created Equal — Overview — Conclusion — Chapter 1: Lean Basics to Define Your Custom er — Eliminate Wastes, and Align IS — The Five Lean Principles — The Seven Deadly Wastes — Kaizen and Kaizen EventsAligning IS to — Activities — Thirteen IS Guiding Principles for a Lean Environment — Chapter 2: Applying Standardization — Information System s — Applying Standardization to Hardware and Software — Hardware Madness — Software Galore — ERP in Name Only — Hardware Benefits from Standardization — Software Benefits from Standardization — Doing More with Less, Faster and Cheaper — Benefits from Using a Common ERP System — Chapter 3: Integrating Your Order Entry into — Information Highway — Modifying ERP to Handle Order Entry — Every Employee Sees the Customer Order — Handling Incomplete Customer Orders — Making Your Office Lean Less Paper/Immediate Access — Hold That Order! — From Lead to Quote to Order — Scheduling an Order to the Floor — Chapter 4: Selecting, Enabling, and — Your ERP System — Base Product DefinitionTechnology and Business Preferences — Use Business People with Lean Backgrounds to Find — New ERP System — Skip the ERP Product Sales Talk and Go Directly — the Technicians — The Role of End User Participation — Finalizing Our ERP Choice — Managing Your ERP Implementing a Vanilla Version — Customizing — Customizing ERP after Implementation — The Power of Training and Keeping Programmers on Staff — Chapter 5: Kanban: Reducing Inventory and — Pull with Suppliers — Kanban Basics — Benefits of Less Inventory — MRP Produces More Inventory, Less Flexibility — The Kanban Process Begins to Open Doors — Kanban Reduces Inventory, Eliminates Waste, — Improves Savings — Integrating the Kanban Process into the ERP System — Creating Self-Billing Invoices — Kanban Builds Stronger Supplier Relationships — Inventory Accuracy Is Less Critical with a Kanban System — Chapter 6: Reshuffling MRP to Align with Kanban and Lean — Role of MRP in Lean — The Pre-MRP Program — MRP Benefits — MRP No Longer Manages You — Chapter 7: Mission to Go LiveBuilding Teams — Overcoming Barriers — The Business Process Kaizen Teams Strategic Project — The BPK Team Becomes the New ERP Team — Choosing a Consultantd Creating — Implementation Team — Managing the Implementation — Going Live Strike for the Heart — The Challenge of Using Fewer Reports — Importance of Teams in Building a Lean Culture — Chapter 8: Capturing, Managing, and Sharing Information — Who Sees the Information? — Benefits of Open Sharing of Information — Example of Easy Access Programming a Preorder Screen — Open Information Builds Trust and a Common Culture — Use Information as a Tool Throughout Your Business — The New IS Role in Supporting Lean — Chapter 9: Lean Accounting System s — The Role of Reports in Lean — Standard Cost Accounting — Plain English Financial Statement — Putting Financial Statements in the Hands of the Users — Impact of Kanban on Accounts Payable Functions — Standard Allocations — Appendix I: Seven S teps to Eliminating Standard Cost from an Information System — Appendix II: The Thirteen Guiding — System Principles — Index — About the Authors.
