The types of waste (2): work supplies
What are (too high) inventories in production are in administrative areas the work stocks. Orders, invoices, purchase orders… everything that is left lying around and piling up is considered waste. With invoices, this is obvious at first glance: the later I send …
The types of waste (1): overproduction or reactive power
Logically we consider it wasteful to produce things that are not needed – a well-known example of this is the EU – Butterberg. But what about the indirect areas? The overproduction does not catch the eye and does not clog up storage …
Why do you need the types of waste?
The question is asked again and again: what is the need for classification by type of waste? You can also discover where there is waste. That is of course correct in principle. But the categorization helps us – like so much in …
Lean Administration – the underestimated management approach
Studies on how much waste can be found in German offices appear at regular intervals. In addition to the Fraunhofer Lean Office study, another survey among 110 medium-sized companies comes to the conclusion that employees spend more than 40 percent of their working …
