Total Flow Management: Achieving Excellence with Kaizen and Lean Supply Chains, by Euclides A. Coimbra (Kaizen Institute, 2009), has been distributed only within Kaizen Institute and among its customers. Now this book is available to all and will surely join the classics on the practical application of Toyota Production System principles to supply-chain design.

Coimbra is a senior consultant and managing director of Kaizen Institute with more than two decades of experience teaching, designing, and implementing lean systems. Across 280 sheets of A4 size paper, this book attempts nothing less than a full explanation of internal and external logistics systems that enable lean supply chains.

For any student of continuous improvement, this book is a pleasure to read.

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