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The Lean Post / Articles / Lean’s Role in Labor Shortages and the Supply Chain

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Executive Leadership

Lean’s Role in Labor Shortages and the Supply Chain

By Josh Howell, Matthew Savas and Richard Vellante

November 30, 2021

LEI leaders talk about recent blame thrown toward Lean in the supply chain, the rising labor shortage, NFT's, and more.

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In this episode of the WLEI Podcast, Matt Savas sits down with LEI President Josh Howell and Richard Vellante, LEI’s executive director of events and administration. They discuss the labor shortage and recent supply chain issues with the perspectives and intuition, as well as addressing recent blame thrown towards lean within the supply chain industry.

Leadership is at the center of these topics, with Rich’s experience as an executive chef lending some hands-on nuance to the conversation. Leaders should be hard on the process, not the people getting accustomed to that process.

NFT’s are also a topic, as the digital possessions’ rising popularity in the media landscape is a new and unfamiliar space, making it a perfect place for some lean thinking and practice.

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Josh Howell
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Matthew Savas
|Richard Vellante

About Josh Howell

Joshua Howell is president and executive team leader at the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI). For over a decade, he has supported individuals and organizations with lean transformations for improved business performance. As a coach, he helps people become lean thinkers and practitioners through experiential learning, believing such an approach can…

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About Matthew Savas

Matt serves as content director at the Lean Enterprise Institute responsible for the institute’s content strategy in all mediums. He also serves as Director of the Lean Global Network, where he supports the network’s 30+ institutes and partners to spread lean thinking around the globe.  Matt has a BA in East…

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About Richard Vellante

Vellante has over 20 years of experience leading, coaching, and training teams of staff and executives, most recently as executive vice president and executive chef at Legal Sea Foods, a Boston-based casual-dining chain with 4,000-plus employees. It was voted by USA Today as Best Seafood Restaurant in 2013. Vellante was responsible for the management and oversight of 34 restaurants and eight different concepts. His responsibilities included overseeing general operations, menu development, and roll outs, including seasonal menu changes and promotions.

In 2014, in partnership with LEI, he led the chain’s implementation of lean continuous improvement methods as an expansion plan mandated new levels of efficiency while providing high-quality food and a better guest experience. Vellante oversaw the phased implementation of lean management methods beginning with a model line in a Boston restaurant. He helped lead the multi-year effort by solving problems, applying lean tools, and creating a lean-thinking culture that improved the work, quality, and lead times.

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FRANCISCO PULGAR-VIDALsays:
January 4, 2022 at 11:40 am

I enjoyed listening to the first and third sections of this podcast. The rigors of restaurant work could be lessened with a systemic approach to the work restaurant-wide, like helping the critical flow (cooking) move without interruptions through the support of feeder tasks (grating the cheese). Coupling process development with product development is also a useful idea.
The section on NFT was unanticipated and refreshing to hear in the Lean world and I think it expands the discussions so that this world does not become an “echo chamber” which is what I felt during the second segment on SC.
Good job!

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Matt Savassays:
December 15, 2021 at 10:38 am

Hi Jen – sorry for the slow reply. We post the transcript of our podcasts just below the title. Click the link that reads ‘Download podcast transcript’.

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Jensays:
November 30, 2021 at 9:14 am

Please make these readable. I’m in an open office with a number of other folks and can’t handily listen to a podcast.

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