Is your procurement as Lean as your manufacturing?
You can start leveraging the power of Lean Procurement™, the ease and speed of the Internet, and our expertise as a leading distributor of industrial MRO, business and office supplies…to be far more efficient right now
We can make it happen.Bring the Power of Lean Manufacturing to Your Procurement Process.
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What is Lean Manufacturing?Lean Manufacturing is a focus on optimizing productivity, eliminating waste and continuous improvement. This can occur on the plant floor or anywhere in a company, in all departments. Lean Manufacturing principals can benefit every department and every business process. Even a office workers desk can use the principals for better productivity. See more…. |
What is Lean Procurement?Lean Procurement is a strong compliment to a company’s other lean manufacturing initiatives”, says Kenn Fischburg, president of Consumers Interstate Corp. “It applies similar strategies to cut the fat and build a smooth flow in this often overlooked area of procuring high velocity, low value MRO, office and business supplies See more… |
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The Game PlanThe Game Plan to implement Lean Procurement™ (LP) requires four steps. Basically, these steps follow the same methods that are in the Lean Manufacturing guidelines. The objective is to eliminate: procurement activities that have no value, paperwork, filing, phoning, and talking and data entry. The first step is Establishing executive support. See more… |
Implementation of Lean ProcurementIt begins with a no-cost analysis that reveals all the choke points, overlaps and wasted activities, and exactly where and how they can save significant time, costs and paperwork. Then it lays out a details road map, and offers expert help from Consumers to put a faster, easier and online procurement process in place: including employee training. See more… |
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Lean Procurement BenefitsLean Procurement brings more time for more productivity. We use the principles of Lean manufacturing and apply them to the procurement process to eliminate waste and improve productivity. Unnecessary activities are eliminated, the procurement process is streamlined, paperwork is reduced, orders are placed and received faster, less time spent on the low value items, controls and accountability is established, invoices are consolidated to be a once a month summary, data is available 24/7 online for review See more… |
Our Lean Procurement expertiseWe’re experts: a leading-edge distributor of MRO factory supply items – with a unique, patented solution carried out successfully for hundreds of businesses like yours in New England. We know inside-out, the issues you’re dealing with and how to ramp up productivity, painlessly. See more… |
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Who are we?Norwich, CT-based Consumers Interstate is an advanced industrial supplies distributor; doing business since 1947. Our e-commerce expertise is well recognized, and reflected in its patented Priority Program® for achieving lean procurement; used to advantage daily by hundreds of manufacturing and other businesses throughout New England. See more… |
Frequently asked questions:
What is Lean Manufacturing? What is a Kaizen? Who started Lean? Where does technology fit into Lean? Can suppliers help? How to implement Lean What are the benefits of Lean? What is the 5S method? What is a Kanban? What is Lean Procurement? What is the Lean objective? Where does Lean Procurement™ fit in? What is the procurement process? What supplies are we talking about? How is Lean Procurement implemented? What are the results of the Lean process? What is the Game Plan? What is the implementation Game Plan? Establishing the executive commitment Uncovering your current procurement process? A typical procurement process Making the recommendation? The implementation What are the obstacles? Our experience What are the benefits? About Consumers Interstate What products do we deliver? How do we help? What is our focus? Our history |
