The Big Squeeze: Strategic Sourcing
December 20, 2011
Hosted by Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
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Episode Description
Products are getting more complex and supply chains are getting longer—and not just because they are located in other countries. Some companies are doing it right, focusing on an integrated supply base. Others don’t think much about supply chain, content to let the chips fall where they may! In this week’s show, your host and visual system expert, Gwendolyn Galsworth, interviews Tricia Moody, supply chain expert and author/co-author of more than a dozen business improvement books, including five on Strategic Sourcing (or as experts in the field call it: The Spend). Listen and hear savvy ways to select your suppliers and help them improve their own processes instead blaming them for their failures. Hear what changes supplier behavior as Ms. Moody presents dozens of proven steps you can take to squeeze the cost out of your supply chain. Tune in and learn about companies that are doing it right and doing it better. Your call-in comments and questions are welcomed.
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Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, PhD, is president and founder of Visual Thinking Inc. and The Visual-Lean Institute(r), a training, consulting, and research firm in visual workplace technologies. Over a period of 30 years, Dr. Galsworth has codified the field of visuality into a single coherent framework of thinking and application called the 10-Doorway Model.
In 2005, Dr. Galsworth established the Visual-Lean(r) Institute where in-house and external trainers are licensed in nine core visual workplace courses.
Four of her nine courses are now available as on-line training systems (English/Spanish), with more to come. Galsworth is author of seven books, including two Shingo Prize winners: Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking and Work That Makes Sense, available from her website and Amazon.
Dr. Galsworth began in the 1980s as the head of training/development at Productivity Inc. She worked closely with Dr. Ryuji Fukuda to adapt the CEDAC(r) method for western companies, and with Dr. Shigeo Shingo to develop, among many things, poka-yoke for the West. She was principal developer of Visual Factory, TEIAN (operator-led suggestion systems), and the X-Type Matrix.
A Fellow on the Shingo Institute Faculty and former Baldrige and Shingo Examiners, Galsworth has led study missions to some of the world’s finest companies, including in Japan. Dr. Galsworth lives in New England where she happily works, hikes, and writes.
