Lean Six Sigma Logistics: Strategic Development to Operational Success

by Thomas Goldsby, Robert Martichenko, Robert O. Martichenko

Rushing to marketing, reducing costs, and accelerating lead times are vital in todays competitive environment. This guide illustrates how to integrate Lean, Six Sigma, and Logistics into a cohesive process that will help organizations improve profit margins and eliminate unnecessary inventory while increasing speed and flow in the supply chain.

Genres: Business

282 pages, Hardcover

First published August 11, 2005

Reviews

[Anca · Rating 3 out of 5]

I work in logistics and I’m a black belt. I started reading this book to find some examples about logistics specific ways of thinking for lean six sigma application.
While I did find some nice anecdotes and things that were put into a different, more logistical perspective, i found the book to be badly structured and definitely not something that can be used by a non practitioner to understand how to apply lean six sigma in logistics.

[Tim · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you do logistics and don't know anything about Six Sigma then this may be a good fit for you. If you know Six Sigma and want to learn how to use it in logistics (or learn a little about logistics in general), then not so much.

Voice of the Customer wasn't mentioned until about a third of the way through the book, and that is a shame. VOC should always be first and foremost the center of all projects, and in order to do that you have to understand who the customer is and I think the authors don't quite get the importance of this. Even if the project is internal and looking to make more money, etc., there is still a customer - yourself. So goals and VOC were given short shrift here and that makes finding the x's and establishing the critical x's problematic. Then again, I suspect VOC wasn't entirely on the minds of the authors as they wrote this book either - the customer then being the reader. Or maybe they were their own customer...

[Donnie Corrêa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Although I usually only post and review literature, this book has been of inestimable value to me during my Business Management graduation. The whole Six Sigma sistem is beautiful and although I hate organization, there's a lot of beauty in it, mostly if it's done in a lean and logical way. I'd recommend it for all business owners and managers, in a smaller degree, to all people trying to organize things.