Software Sirens

Regular readers know that we have a pretty low opinion of MRP/ERP software and in general prefer the simple excellence of manual visual systems for sh…

It seems like every day another company decides to genuflect before the false god of the almighty algorithm.  Regular readers know this is one of my p…

Over the past year I've given Dr. Shahrukh Irani of Ohio State a pretty hard time, especially in the post The False God of the Almighty Algorithm.…

One of the presentations at the Lean Accounting Summit was titled "Lean by the Numbers", and had the following description: "Learn abo…

Interesting lean news continues to flow from the UK, and the latest eyebrow raiser is the assertion by the folks at a company called Preactor that lea…

To quote the favorite phrase of a friend of mine, it's like jabbing a pointed stick in my eye.  Yesterday I got a call from the owner of a local m…

A funny thing happened to the folks at Cadbury Schweppes on their way to implementing a global IT strategy with the clever acronym, PROBE (Program for…

Over the past several months, we have published a number of articles and blog posts concerning MRP, its origins and its role - if any - in lean manufa…