Lean & Supply Chain

Flow, pull and networks. Lean manufacturing and the Toyota Production System, then supply-chain management, the bullwhip effect, network design and logistics.

• Lean Manufacturing & the Toyota Production System — Delivering value with minimum waste. Learn the five lean principles, the eight wastes (TIMWOODS), value-stream mapping, flow and pull, takt time, kanban and supermarkets, SMED quick changeover, 5S and visual management, jidoka and poka-yoke, standard work, heijunka, kaizen, OEE and TPM — with Python computing OEE and the capacity freed by SMED.
• Supply Chain Management & Logistics — Managing the flow of goods from raw material to customer. Learn supply-chain structure and drivers, the bullwhip effect and its causes, information sharing and VMI, risk pooling and network design, facility location (centre of gravity, load–distance), transportation modes and costs, warehousing and order picking, sourcing and supplier selection, logistics KPIs, resilience and sustainability — with Python simulating the bullwhip effect in a 4-stage chain.