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Order Fulfillment: Process, Models & Documentation

ProjectManager.com

Products go through many processes before they reach a customer. What is order fulfillment and how does it differ from order processing and order management? We’ll explain that, the order fulfillment process and list the different types of order fulfillment models. That’s called order fulfillment.

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Is Knowledge Area – Process Group Structure Dead?

The IIL Blog

By Nagaraja Gundappa October 23, 2024 Now that PMI is aligning PMBoK to value delivery and relegated the old Knowledge Area – Process group structure to a non-PMBoK document, the question that arises is – if this old structure is still relevant or dead? We added stay, transport, food and venue expenses and arrived at the costing per person.

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The 5 Lean Principles: Definitions & How to Use Them

ProjectManager.com

Lean management originated in Japan, where it grew out of the Toyota Production System. This led to lean manufacturing, but today lean is used in more industries, such as project management, software development, construction and more. Lean principles come from the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI), where founders James P.

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Summary and review: The lean-agile way

Henny Portman

The book “ The Lean-Agile Way – Unleash Business Results in the Digital Era with Value Stream Management ” by Cecil ‘Gary’ Rupp, Richard Knaster, Steve Pereira, and Al Shalloway provides a comprehensive roadmap to optimize processes, improve products, and enhance service delivery.

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Streamlining Success: Lean Principles in Project Management

MPUG

First, our last article touched on waste in the context of lean. Second, I am the father of a recent engineering graduate who is now working as an engineer, and part of the onboarding was a class on lean. This is where Lean principles come into play. The class began by asking the students to draw a pig. The overarching goal?

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Making your Scrum Events Lean – Identifying the Wastes

Scrum.org

The new Scrum Guide 2020 mentions Scrum is founded on empiricism and lean thinking. Lean thinking reduces waste and focuses on the essentials.”. Transport: Are updates transferred across different channels like email, boards, etc.? Excess Processing: Is a Status Report being prepared for Management? What is next?

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How to Calculate Manufacturing Cycle Time (Formula Included)

ProjectManager.com

Cycle time includes processing, moving, inspection and queue time for the item. That is, cycle time covers the entire process, even inactive time when a product is being moved from one part of the facility to another. It’s a KPI as it shows the average time it takes to process raw materials into a finished product.