Tag: Lean & Green

Toyota Manager Speaking

Toyota Becoming a Mobility Company

18th February 2020 - David Brunt

Toyota is shifting towards a mobility company in this "once in a century period of profound transformation." In a message from President, Akio Toyoda, the company communicates that the automobile is...

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Supply Chain Risk

Lean Supply Chains & Risk

14th February 2020 - David Brunt

Ensuring the safety of people during the Corona Virus is the most important issue, but it is also affecting business. Yesterday JCB, the UK maker of yellow diggers, announced it is cutting production...

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Changing Reasons for Going Lean

7th November 2006 - Daniel T Jones

Two questions from very different perspectives illustrate how the reasons for going lean are changing. First from Denmark, where a few years ago they were very worried about losing manufacturing jobs...

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Supply Chain Walks

2nd August 2005 - Daniel T Jones

One of the most interesting things I do is to take a walk through a complete supply chain. I did this twice last week. The first was from a vegetable grower through a consolidation warehouse to a...

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