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'Lean distributing' with flexible IT resourcing.

Publication: Metal Center News
Publication Date: 01-SEP-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
WHILE BUSINESS ACTIVITY IS ROBUST in the steel industry today, it wasn't long ago that dozens of mills, and many more distributors, struggled to stave off bankruptcy. Even though the price of steel has regained healthy levels, service centers have learned to do more with less, relying on smaller and smaller staffs to shoulder the work. Nowhere is this truer than in the information technology department.

How do we address the cyclical ups and downs of the metals industry and still meet the IT support requirements of our increasingly complex businesses? The solution rests in extending lean manufacturing concepts to the staffing of IT organizations, even at metal distributors.

Lean manufacturing is an operational strategy meant to achieve the shortest possible cycle time by making use of highly flexible and responsive processes. Flexible IT resourcing offers companies the ability to rapidly scale up or down depending on...

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