Discuss how well-designed lean supply chains should operate, delivering products quickly to the end customer, with minimum waste and maximum financial gain. Organizations within a lean supply chain are able to deliver better customer value by responding more efficiently, quickly, and consistently to customer needs.  In turn, this facilitates the operations of the lean supply chain creating a virtuous cycle that translates into improved financial performance.

Green’s Corporate Transformations

Explore companies’ efforts to reduce the environmental impact of their products and services involving their suppliers.  Supply chain environmental management can involve a wide range of activities – restrictions on packaging which requires suppliers to use less packaging or more recyclable packaging, a blacklist of toxic chemicals, new products with desirable environmental attributes.  All of these initiatives take effort, collaboration, communications, and vision.  Yet when companies work cooperatively, both parties and the environment benefit.  

Improved Customer Satisfaction through Visibility 

Improve your company’s customer satisfaction through supply chain visibility.  Companies can attain near perfect order performance through a focus on supply chain excellence by an outside-in view of customers and their demand patterns which minimizes risks and reduces uncertainty.  In this process, a company can drive profitable orders and optimize the cost to service rather than just the costs to deliver.