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The lean training practice incorporates analysis of manufacturing business that want to increase, and still, continue to keep operating costs low. A course has been created so that businesses can have employees be trained in lean certification, so that they will be qualified to identify approaches to grow a business while keeping costs low.

Lean certification is different from Six Sigma certification because it involves departments in addition to manufacturing and production. Six Sigma is a more specific look at the design and implementation aspects of manufacturing. Lean training brings the employee into pretty much all departments of a corporation to identify ways to reduce costs in all business departments and the manner in which they interact with the production department.

Consider this example, from the purchasing department. If a purchasing department is not sufficiently updated, then a request for an increased amount of production units can be carried out too slowly for the production department to increase its capacity.

Once a request is received for an increased order, the purchasing department has its own protocols on how to obtain the correct number of bids, and how to qualify a vendor, and other criteria. This process must be made into a modular unit, just as the manufacturing process must be made modular, according to lean training specifications.

A modular purchasing department would operate in the following fashion. A request would come in from production to increase the amount of a particular unit. A subset of the entire purchasing department is set aside in advance to either deal with type of item, or with this particular section of the production department. Either way, there is now a more manageable sized team of people who would be made responsible to make sure this request be carried out quickly.

If this cell inside the purchasing division has been suitably updated, then they will be able to setup their own protocol on how to solicit bids for an increased quantity of goods. They would most likely select the best providers, so that increases in quantity goes to a group of sellers who are proficient at handing larger order amounts. The result is that the purchasing unit is improved, the same way that the production line is improved.

In order to obtain lean certification, a candidate has to be familiar with all aspects of a business. They need to have a technical background, so that they can put technology to use in the process. They also must have a business background, with experience, so they know how products are ordered and received, and how payments are made and received, and every other aspect of the business cycle.

Lean certification is unique in that its scope is a whole organization and strives to keep costs down in every department as growth occurs in the overall organization.