Lean Purchasing Program By Buker, Inc. Reduces Inventory by 50%

The Buker, Inc. organization, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois is an international management education and consulting firm that works with manufacturing and distribution companies

The Lean Purchasing Program, developed by Buker, Inc., is designed to reduce purchased material inventory by 50%. The Lean Purchasing initiative is a step-by-step program that analyzes a manufacturing company’s procurement processes to move to Kanban pull and consignment for a World Class program model. Buker, Inc. develops a detailed Lean Purchasing implementation plan and provides ongoing assistance to achieve improved supply delivery and inventory reduction targets.

Michael Tincher, President of Buker, Inc., stated, “The Lean Purchasing Program we are offering is a World Class procurement approach developed over the last ten years working with our Best in Class clients. The Lean Purchasing effort has reduced inventory 40-50% in each client environment the program as been implemented in.”

The Buker organization, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, is an international management education and consulting firm that works with manufacturing and distribution companies. Since 1979 Buker, Inc. has worked with the best manufacturing and distribution enterprises in the areas of Lean Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Six Sigma. Past and current clients include Rust-Oleum Corporation, Siemens Building Technologies, YKK-AP America, Inc., Thermo Fisher Scientific, PerkinElmer, Highway Technologies, Inc., Hu-Friedy Manufacturing Company and many others.

For more information go to the Buker, Inc. website, www.BUKER.com for free assistance to manufacturing questions (Ask The Expert) and free downloads of whitepapers on Lean Manufacturing, Enterprise Resource Planning and other World Class Manufacturing topics.

Contact:

Michael Tincher, President
Buker, Inc.
800 Main St.
Antioch IL 60002
www.buker.com
847-395-3050