Join Tim McLain and Justin Lester as they talk about all topics that will help you navigate the fundamentals of Indirect Material Supply Chains, to build on a strong foundation so you can realise significant improvement across your business.
...popcorn provided upon request
Welcome to Lexin Solutions new Podcast Series! Join our Chief Strategy Officer (Tim McLain) and North American Partner and Principal (Justin Lester) as they take you on your indirect material supply chain journey.
In this episode, Justin and Tim start you off with the basics: Blocking and Tackling. What is MRO, and where does it fit in your business?
Justin and Tim share the guiding principles around how Lexin Solutions helps you REDUCE RISK at the LOWEST POSSIBLE COST. What's the purpose of MRO? Watch to understand our slice of the world, just a little better.
In this insightful and highly entertaining episode, Justin and Tim share the truths around why people think we should be cataloging inventory vs. what the actual benefits of maintaining a common catalogue provides.
Tim & Justin start adding the meat on the bones now, setting us up for the next 5-7 episodes where they dive into the MRO Flow, and eat of the elements that make up the Indirect Material Supply Chain.
Tim & Justin stitch together the link between your Maintenance & Engineering Teams, and the Warehouse and Inventory Management teams. This is the first step to help you optimize your Indirect Materials Supply Chain, and begin to strengthen your relationships across these critical functions.
Tim and Justin take you through the next step of the MRO Flow: Checking Inventory. Watch as the team continue to stitch the flow together, explaining why it's so important to eat from the pantry.
Looking to remove weeks out of your supply chain? Constant fighting between operations and supply chain? Justin shares his insight on how effective a good MRP Process can be and how Supply Chain and Operations can set each other up for success.
Tim & Justin speak about both the finance and physical warehouse aspect of Receiving Parts. The boys highlight the importance of timely receiving and receipting of parts, and how this has a follow on effect to your inventory management and vendor management.
In this episode, the boys dive into kitting: enabling the warehouse to provide a superior service to their maintenance and engineering colleagues on the other side of the same coin.
The boys share how and when you should be issuing parts to work orders, and the impact this has on your accounting practises throughout the year. If done right, this will save you time (and money) when forecasting spend.
Tim and Justin have delivered yet again, with a surprise Christmas Special, sharing their experiences with SAP and how their curiosity helped them progress their careers by utilizing all that their ERP systems had to offer. The shirts alone are worth the watch...
Our Season 1 finale finishes with the last step of the MRO Flow: Returning Parts. With the foundations now in place, we look forward to you joining us for Season 2, in early 2025, where the team will start showing you how these individual steps can be used to optimise and transform your business practises.
In this episode, Justin and Tim discuss the importance of proper cataloguing of items and go in-depth no strategies used within Lexin.
In this episode, Justin and Tim start you off with the basics: Blocking and Tackling. What is MRO, and where does it fit in your business?
This episode dives into how understanding your work priority and connecting it with your supply chain can impact your working capital.
Justin shares with Tim how establishing/adopting ISO14224 standards in your maintenance business can directly improve indirect material management process.
With a rich background in Industry, Systems, and Consulting, Mark shares some war stories spanning over his 25+ years working across the globe, where he's helped maintenance and engineering teams optimise their business performance to connect back into their supply chains.
Norm's shares a little about the IPSECA, FRACAS, FMEAs, and a dozen other acronyms that will finally make sense after watching this episode.The team help us understand how addressing critical items for the Maintenance & Engineering teams can help supply chain service the business more effectively and efficiently.
Our #FightNight theme continues with next locations scheduled for Houston and South Africa in the months ahead. Reach out to Danielle Lorusso if you'd like to schedule a call with Tim, Justin, and your Maintenance & Supply Chain Teams to dive a little deeper into how these lines of business can drive efficiencies across your organisation by working together.
This episode aims to rectify this gross injustice, with Tim McLain & Justin Lester focusing all their efforts on the crucial pillar of #Procurement & #Purchasing (Supply). Get out your SAP T-Code black books, grab a cup of coffee, and listen to how the boys were able to help yet another client drive efficiency and reduce cost across their supply chain.
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Tim & Justin dive into our Supply Chain Effectiveness Key Performance Indicators developed to help organisations actively measure:Are we better today than we were yesterday? (and what you need to do to improve).
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Tim & Justin are back, wearing their respective Maroon and Blues colours (oblivious to the State of Origin clash occurring this evening), talking about lead times. Once again, they're able to share how a simple topic can have such a significant impact on your stocking strategies, maintenance support, and inventory optimisation.
Justin shines some light on additional pillars of the supply chain in this special episode, going back to his: Finance and Accounting. If you ever wondered how a humble accountant from the Great State of Texas became a global keynote speaker and principal advisor, across Maintenance Engineering & Supply Chain, then this origin story is for you!