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Unlocking Business Potential: The Impact of Process Improvement Strategies

Dec 154 min read

Unlocking Business Potential: The Impact of Process Improvement Strategies

business process improvement (BPI) strategy is one such opportunity to improve the way your business works and expedite desired outcomes.

Reminder 1,761 … The Water Level and The Rocks…

Richard Kunst

Nov 222 min read

Reminder 1,761 … The Water Level and The Rocks…

To solve a problem : there is a tendency to react by adding inventory. Our job is to convince them to solve the problem.

Richard Kunst

Nov 131 min read

Lean Observation Sheet

Use this sheet to observe and document Lean Practices in use and potential opportunities.

Richard Kunst

Nov 914 min read

Hirano’s Eight Conditions for Flow

Outline Ohno‟s 8 conditions for flow manufacturing;

McDonald’s touchscreen kiosks were feared as job killers. Instead, something surprising happened

Richard Kunst

Sep 255 min read

McDonald’s touchscreen kiosks were feared as job killers. Instead, something surprising happened

Self-service kiosks have loomed as job killers since they were first rolled out 25 years ago.

"Tick... Tick ... Tick" Obsolete Inventory: Your Ticking Time Bomb

Richard Kunst

Jul 292 min read

"Tick... Tick ... Tick" Obsolete Inventory: Your Ticking Time Bomb

“Tick...tick...tick” the team calculates 30% of the warehouse has been storing material not moved in 3 years.

Richard Kunst

Jun 303 min read

“VISION” of VISUAL workplace

For those not yet committed to a visual factory – stupid floors you just walk on, but smart floors are filled with information.

Richard Kunst

Jun 93 min read

Updating Your Value Stream Maps !!

You have made a huge plunge to develop Value Stream Maps for key products. So, it is even more important to take time for a review.

Richard Kunst

May 192 min read

Behavioral Design

Behavioral design is not about using psychology to manipulate people. It’s about using psychology to help people achieve their goals.

Problem to Solve? Take it to Morning Market.

Richard Kunst

Apr 233 min read

Problem to Solve? Take it to Morning Market.

Problems, Problems, Problems, we all have them. Morning Market help you organize them for successful resolution.

Food Loss and Waste should not become Animal Feed so embrace FSSC 22000 Version 6.0

Richard Kunst

Mar 104 min read

Food Loss and Waste should not become Animal Feed so embrace FSSC 22000 Version 6.0

wandering through the grocery store? Do you pause, stare and wonder will they ever sell all of this produce before it spoils?

Richard Kunst

Feb 252 min read

Designing the "Rubber Factory"

The Rubber Factory allows you to reallocate resources with a structured methodology

Richard Kunst

Feb 49 min read

Confused about SHRINK and THEFT

Goods through the cashier and total came to $587.00, a second opinion through a self-checkout only equaled $87.00

Richard Kunst

Jan 284 min read

COLLABORATION – part of your Vision

Collaboration is an allergy that exists in nearly every organization. I cannot explain why … but it exists internally and externally …

Richard Kunst

Jan 73 min read

OMG? Let's get competitive!

The sole and only role of Walmart is to act as your household purchasing agent.

5 Signs that Business Operations are Changing Rapidly in 2024

Richard Kunst

Dec 17, 20231 min read

5 Signs that Business Operations are Changing Rapidly in 2024

But over the past 3 years, we've seen more change than we ever have seen. Here we share 5 important ones:

Richard Kunst

Dec 17, 20234 min read

CENTER OF TRUTH

Lean Methodologies implemented could not deliver their full potential until a CENTER OF TRUTH could be established.

Richard Kunst

Dec 7, 20233 min read

SIT ON YOUR HANDS !!!

f you had sat on your hands and then instructed the dealer rep to conduct the procedure that you did he would have learned.

Survived the Brink of the Pandemic destruction only to be Thrust into the Turbulence of Inflation.

Richard Kunst

Nov 26, 20232 min read

Survived the Brink of the Pandemic destruction only to be Thrust into the Turbulence of Inflation.

SURVIVING BUT NOT THRIVING approach to business AND in mindset growth.

WAREHOUSE WALK the value is the pick not the walk.

Richard Kunst

Nov 14, 20233 min read

WAREHOUSE WALK the value is the pick not the walk.

Walking is the biggest cost driver when it comes to warehouse operations and a big detriment to picking efficiency.

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