Ryder’s Five LEAN Guiding Principles provide the foundation for operational excellence, continuous improvement and supply chain efficiency

Through our LEAN Guiding Principles, Ryder strives to empower all team members to eliminate waste, complete work correctly the first time, and challenge every aspect of the business to improve. Our end goal is to move the supply chain as fast as possible by raising productivity and increasing inventory turns, all of which delivers operational excellence and measurable ROI to our customers.

Our Five LEAN Guiding Principles are:

1. People Involvement
2. Built-in Quality
3. Standardization
4. Short Lead Time
5. Continuous Improvement

Some of the tools we use as part of our LEAN Guiding Principles include:

• A3’s (one page reports)
• Lean Academy for Red Belt and Green Belt certification
• Centralized quality management system with over 600 standard operating procedures and policies
• Workplace organization (WPO) and Visual management to ensure there is a ‘place for everything and everything is in its place’
• Work cell dashboards
• Employee suggestion systems
• Standardized Quality problem solving process