The Lean Extended Enterprise: Moving Beyond the Four Walls to Value Stream Excellence

This book provides executives, managers and educators with a comprehensive implementation plan for implementing enterprise-wide lean. Using the Lean Extended Enterprise Reference Model (LEERM), it demonstrates that by deploying the right methodologies and technologies to the right situation you can achieve breakthroughs in performance. It also illustrates how to integrate lean, six sigma, kaizen and enterprise resources planning into a total business improvement initiative, beyond the four walls of an organization.Key FeaturesDemonstrates how to integrate Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, ERP into a total business improvement initiative and how to apply the right method to the right opportunities to achieve breakthroughs in performanceIllustrates how to develop, organize, launch, and lead a successful enterprise-wide lean operating philosophy, from the executive suite to the shipping dock, and upstream and downstream with suppliers and customers respectively through the total value chainExplains how to apply lean to non-traditional "soft process" areas such as: product development, engineering, customer service, production planning/purchasing, and other support functionsIncludes implementation tools, assessment guides and templates