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# Lean Distribution: Applying Lean Manufacturing to Distribution, Logistics, and Supply Chain

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"Kirk Zylstra's focus on the customer is a fresh approach to lean. Companies that can bear the burden of variability will develop a strategic advantage in today's volatile market." ―Travis Jarrell Institute of Industrial Engineers Program Committee Chair " Lean Distribution is a comprehensive yet concise work with clear leanings. Kirk's experience across a range of industries brings a unique understanding of common opportunities and solutions available to optimize distribution processes. Lean techniques, typically effective in manufacturing processes, are applied in the downstream supply chain in a practical and productive manner that will offer something to any business distributing tangible goods." ―F. Jeff Duncan Jr. VP, CIO, and Director of Technology Louisiana Pacific Corp. " Lean Distribution has robustly captured the revolution occurring in today's increasingly competitive and global supply chain. Eliminating losses through lean manufacturing and lean distribution initiatives will become even more critical enablers to organizations developing cost-advantaged supply chains." ―Rick McDonald Director of Manufacturing The Clorox Company

Review: Lean Distribution? Fat chance ... of finishing the book - I'm sure that Kirk Zylstra has plenty of insights to share, but unfortunately not with the readers of this book. Some truly awful writing obscures his message and, after half an hour of chopping through the unstructured, jargon-ridden prose; lucky-dip punctuation, and lazy word choice I was sufficiently irritated to write this review. Some examples from page 89 (which is as far as I got before I started to lose it, but you could drop the book and find examples on any upturned page): "The demand pattern for a specific business may or may not be contiguous; this depends as much on relative volume as any other factor: low sales items would statistically have a more disjoint pattern". Is this a sentence? How about some full stops? What is that colon adding? The biggest predictor of demand contiguity is the length of the unit of time: demand measured in months is more likely to be contiguous than demand measured in seconds. What does "statistically" mean? Low sales items have a more disjoint[ed] pattern; or even we expect that Low sales items have a more disjoint[ed] pattern. "And cost of capital may be an established financial principle, but when applied to the trade-off of inventory for an individual stock keeping unit (SKU), it may be a stretch". I think this means that we shouldn't use the cost of capital to make decisions about replenishment quantities, but I'm guessing. Why use "may" twice? Is the statement conditional? If so, on what? Have Wiley stopped editing their technical authors? I wonder if this is one of those books that you're supposed to display on your office bookshelf, like badges on a boy scout's sleeve? I certainly regret buying it.
Review: bueno..pero carece de ejercicios y aplicaciones concretas - Está bien el libro, pero quiza le faltan "ejemplos y ejercicios concretos que ayuden a entender la puesta en práctica de los conceptos expuestos. El libro se queda en un aspecto general bastante introductorio.

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐ Lean Distribution? Fat chance ... of finishing the book
*by R***N on 4 November 2007*

I'm sure that Kirk Zylstra has plenty of insights to share, but unfortunately not with the readers of this book. Some truly awful writing obscures his message and, after half an hour of chopping through the unstructured, jargon-ridden prose; lucky-dip punctuation, and lazy word choice I was sufficiently irritated to write this review. Some examples from page 89 (which is as far as I got before I started to lose it, but you could drop the book and find examples on any upturned page): "The demand pattern for a specific business may or may not be contiguous; this depends as much on relative volume as any other factor: low sales items would statistically have a more disjoint pattern". Is this a sentence? How about some full stops? What is that colon adding? The biggest predictor of demand contiguity is the length of the unit of time: demand measured in months is more likely to be contiguous than demand measured in seconds. What does "statistically" mean? Low sales items have a more disjoint[ed] pattern; or even we expect that Low sales items have a more disjoint[ed] pattern. "And cost of capital may be an established financial principle, but when applied to the trade-off of inventory for an individual stock keeping unit (SKU), it may be a stretch". I think this means that we shouldn't use the cost of capital to make decisions about replenishment quantities, but I'm guessing. Why use "may" twice? Is the statement conditional? If so, on what? Have Wiley stopped editing their technical authors? I wonder if this is one of those books that you're supposed to display on your office bookshelf, like badges on a boy scout's sleeve? I certainly regret buying it.

### ⭐⭐⭐ bueno..pero carece de ejercicios y aplicaciones concretas
*by B***O on 31 January 2017*

Está bien el libro, pero quiza le faltan "ejemplos y ejercicios concretos que ayuden a entender la puesta en práctica de los conceptos expuestos. El libro se queda en un aspecto general bastante introductorio.

### ⭐⭐ Longwinded and lacking detail
*by B***. on 2 August 2006*

As an experienced manufacturing and distribution consultant I was very disappointed with this book. The first half of the book goes on and on about how current distribution inputs are "bad", specifically forecasts and says the lean distribution will help solve all your problems (my exaggeration). Unfortunately, like many lean writers, the author really doesn't give you many fresh ideas or detail, other than "lean is good". His answer to most demand uncertainty is to drop forecasting and go to period review (hardly new for the readers of Plossl and Wight), except if you have long lead time items...like anyone that sources overseas. Cutting lead times, using MAD for safety stock are other "relevations", again hardly new to anyone that has read and understood Plossl and Wight. To be fair, this would be a good primer for someone with little distribution experience. However, if you have a reasonable amount of experience in distribution and/or inventory planning, you may not find anything new here.

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