You Can “Get Lean” with MJB
In today’s market, you have to stay lean to compete—to optimize operations, eliminate waste and improve profitability. One company—one partner—can get you there faster.
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What is Lean?
Simply put, lean means having the right product at the right price at the right time. Traditionally, lean is a management philosophy that focuses on the reduction of waste in the manufacturing environment.
These wastes occur as overproduction, waiting, motion, transportation, processing, inventory and defects. Companies that take advantage of the lean concept can improve overall quality, production efficiency and costs.
When it comes to getting lean, some key principles are:
- Quality
- Elimination of waste
- Continuous improvement
- Manufacturing flexibility/
flow
- Building strategic long-term relationships
MJB has built its entire supply chain offering around this lean concept.
Get Lean with Quality
With MJB’s quality assurance program, e.Quality, we insure product quality to specified standards, whether those products were manufactured at our own plants, through our value network or abroad. This proprietary, Web-based system enables MJB’s supply partners to record critical tolerances in real time, as the orders are being produced, ensuring that orders measure up to customer standards. Once the orders are ready for shipment, MJB pre-certifies the load with a Certificate of Quality Conformance, which accompanies the shipping documents. This program brings value to our customers by saving time and money on the inspection process through certified supply partners.
Get Lean and Eliminate Waste
Manufacturing
In the manufacturing arena, we’re experienced at optimizing board yields, so there’s less waste and scrap. We match the right mix of products with the right customer. That means that we can combine your orders with other customer programs to take advantage of supplier efficiencies and reduce your costs.
Inventory
We offer a variety of customized inventory solutions that reduce—and in most cases even eliminate—your inventory. Our offsite Inventory Management System, IMS 168, takes advantage of our network of logistics partners throughout the United States and Mexico. We’ll tailor a program to fit your needs and provide you with access to a real-time transaction database, ensuring that you’ll always get the products you need, when you need them.
If you want the benefits of housing your product onsite without the hassle carrying the inventory on your books, MJB’s Vendor On Site program, VOS 24/7, is the solution for you. Through this program, your materials are placed at your facility and available to you on demand. And the best part is, you don’t pay for the material until you use it.
Personnel
Getting lean with MJB also means optimizing your personnel. Take advantage of one of our inventory programs. Let us take the hassle out of purchasing and inventory control, by consolidating your purchasing transactions on a blanket purchase order. You can also opt for the added benefit of consolidated billing, to eliminate excess accounting transactions.
Get Lean with Continuous Improvement
Lean thinking today may not always mean lean thinking tomorrow. As part of the lean philosophy, a company must always strive for continuous improvement. At MJB, we help our customers get lean by staying lean ourselves. We streamline our own business processes and find better, more efficient ways to serve our customers. Our lean philosophy also extends to our organizational structure and management team, which allows us to make quick decisions and implement new programs so that you don’t have to wait or miss an opportunity.
Get Lean with Manufacturing Flexibility
Through MJB’s Value Partner Network, our products range from full panels to engineered component parts for the Millwork, Fixture, Door and Cabinet industries. Whether you’re looking to add capacity quickly through outsourced components, or if you need a secondary supplier to support your manufacturing requirements, MJB has the solution for you. We have the flexibility to reduce your lead times as well as your overall costs.
Get Lean with Strategic Long-Term Relationships
MJB has spent decades building strategic sourcing relationships, both domestically and abroad. We are uniquely positioned to optimize your Supply Chain through high-quality, reliable Global Sourcing of metal, plywood and component parts. Our expert global sales team represents established suppliers in Asia, South America and beyond, and works on your behalf to negotiate optimum pricing and timely delivery. You get the benefit of a diverse, worldwide supply base from one reliable source—without the need to manage hundreds of relationships to get those benefits.