Arrow Electronics Wins “Innovation of the Year” Award for Second Consecutive Year at Lean & Six Sigma World Conference
March 30 2017 - 9:35AM
Business Wire
For the second year in a row, Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:
ARW) walked away with “Innovation of the Year” honors last night at
the Lean & Six Sigma World Conference, the leading conference
on business process improvement.
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Arrow's Lean Sigma Continuous Process
Improvement Leader Thomas Van Eimeren (right) accepts the
"Innovation of the Year" award at the Lean & Six Sigma World
Conference. This is Arrow's second consecutive year winning the
award. (Photo: Business Wire)
Arrow won for its Lean Sigma Drones project, which combines
drone technology, proprietary video technology and a
rapid-improvement methodology to observe Arrow’s extensive
warehouse operations from a birds-eye view and more effectively
identify areas for continuous improvement. The project has already
increased the efficiency of targeted processes by 82 percent and
eliminated more than 6.5 million walking steps in warehouse
processes since Arrow launched it in late 2016.
Employee feedback spurred the innovative drone project—Arrow
warehouse employees reported it was much easier to observe
processes and identify areas for improvement from a higher vantage
point. Using drones, they can now see more than they ever could
before, and all in 4K resolution.
“Arrow Electronics is always on the lookout for innovative new
ways to improve its logistics services and better meet the needs of
our customers and suppliers around the world,” said Mary Beth
Edwards, vice president of Arrow’s global business operations. “We
are honored to once again be recognized by the Lean & Six Sigma
Conference for guiding innovation forward.”
Arrow won the award last year for its Lean Sigma Global
Logistics Olympics. Both projects are creating a fun, competitive,
continuous process-improvement environment across Arrow’s growing
global logistics network and were conceived of by Arrow’s Top 25
Lean Sigma Practitioner Thomas Van Eimeren, who accepted the award
last night on Arrow’s behalf.
The annual Lean & Six Sigma Conference attracts
international and national experts on topics including innovation,
process improvement and value creation that play a major role in
improving efficiencies, increasing profitability and improving
customer experience across a variety of industries.
About Arrow Electronics
Arrow Electronics is a global provider of products, services and
solutions to industrial and commercial users of electronic
components and enterprise computing solutions. Arrow serves as a
supply channel partner for more than 100,000 original equipment
manufacturers, contract manufacturers and commercial customers
through a global network of more than 460 locations serving over 85
countries. Learn more at www.fiveyearsout.com.
Arrow’s dedicated global logistics services business helps to
create a competitive advantage for customers with tailored supply
chain solutions, best-in-class global capabilities and excellence
in execution. Customers can benefit from improved efficiency,
flexibility, scalability and reliability; reduced risk and total
costs; and an improved ability to focus on critical priorities
while Arrow handles their logistics function. Learn more at
www.arrow.com/en/arrow-services/logistics-services.
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