A great piece of lean thinking advice: “to hell with your competitors; compete against perfection by identifying all activities that are muda and eliminating them.”
Who knew that the process of making a can had so much muda.
Is vertical integration the soultion to all problems relating to lean thinking and the value stream? It seems that one can never rely on their partners, or suppliers, as much as they should be able to because each company is run differently and has different values. Perhaps the only true solution is to own all companies in a value stream so that you can eliminate muda in every step of the process. I see no other solution when looking at processes like the cola example.
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