Lean Roundup #199 – December 2025
- Lean Roundup
- December 29, 2025

I just finished reading the latest publication from the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI) Building a Lean Fulfillment Stream by Robert Martichenko and Kevin von Grabe. The authors define the critical principles of a lean fulfillment stream and the total cost of fulfillment. A fulfillment stream is: all of the activities that move materials and information
READ MOREOn Fridays I will post a Lean related Quote. Throughout our lifetimes many people touch our lives and leave us with words of wisdom. These can both be a source of new learning and also a point to pause and reflect upon lessons we have learned. Within Lean active learning is an important aspect on
READ MOREI recently came across a good video that outlines several strategies for dealing with the recession. These strategies come from Tom Peters, self proclaimed uber-guru, speaker, and author of recently released The Little Big Things: 163 Ways to Pursue EXCELLENCE. Tom was apparently asked what you can do to deal with tough times. While he
READ MOREA recent plant visit was a real lesson in constraint management. What I have found is that we have a weak knowledge of how to identify a bottleneck and how to effectively manage this constraint. To discuss this subject it is important to start with defining the distinction between a constraint and a bottleneck. A
READ MOREOn Fridays I will post a Lean related Quote. Throughout our lifetimes many people touch our lives and leave us with words of wisdom. These can both be a source of new learning and also a point to pause and reflect upon lessons we have learned. Within Lean active learning is an important aspect on
READ MOREWhen Henry Ford introduced flow production in 1913, the objective was to drastically reduce throughput time and human effort. Continuous flow is producing and moving one item at a time (or a small batch of items) through a series of processes as continuously as possible. Flow is one of five key Lean Principles identified by
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