Reducing Waste: Through Coordinating Purchasing & Accounting

An incredible amount of waste is hidden in poorly coordinated activities such as procurement.

For example, I visited a major industrial distributor where packaging and shipping personnel demonstrated their process for “picking” and “packaging” orders for shipment. A customer had issued the distributor a Purchase Order specifying “5 boxes of 10 light bulbs”. Unfortunately, the light bulbs were pre-packaged in boxes of 12.