Friday, 13th February 2009 | By Ray Martin
Value Management is a style of management particularly dedicated to motivating people, developing skills and promoting synergies and innovation, with the aim of maximizing the overall performance of an organization.
Value Management has evolved out of previous methods based on the concept of value and functional approachThese were pioneered by Lawrence D. Miles in the 1940′s and 50′s who developed the technique of Value Analysis (VA) as a method to improve value in existing products.
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Friday, 19th December 2008 | By Ray Martin
Every business can use benchmarking. At its simplest, it helps you to compare statistics and control costs. More sophisticated benchmarking looks at process design and business strategy.
Benchmarking is a process that compares your business activities to similar companies. It questions what you are doing, identifies opportunities for improvement and often provides the momentum necessary for implementing change. Benchmarking is a continuous process that provides organisations with the opportunity to compare their internal and external best practices to those of other organisations. The resulting differences become targets for process improvement to bridge performance gaps.
- Benchmarking or benchmarks performance evaluation
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Balanced scorecard
- Best practice
- Business metrics
- Business process reengineering
- Performance evaluation world class companies
Whether your warehousing operations are in-house or outsourced, a comparison against other third-party logistics providers can be a valuable tool for determining a logistics strategy. Value Logistics can provide that comparison of your company’s current warehouse and distribution operations against the costs and service available from third-party logistics providers. Ensure that your efficiency levels are amongst the best in the industry.
Source: Value Logistics Ltd
contact: http://www.valuelogistics.co.uk/
Thursday, 16th March 2006 | By Ray Martin
Members will have seen a number of articles in the Journal on the use of Lean Management. The term was born out of the production system established by Toyota in Japan in the 1950s and was to a large extent inspired by Kaizen -Â the Japanese strategy of continuous improvement.
For those of you who are not familiar with these techniques,
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