Peter Hines

Professor Peter Hines is the Co-Founder of the Lean Enterprise Research Centre at Cardiff Business School. After graduating from Cambridge University Peter followed a successful career in distribution and manufacturing industry before joining Cardiff Business School in 1992. Since that time, he initially led the Materials Management Unit and then chaired the Lean Enterprise Research Centre within Cardiff Business School.

He has undertaken extensive research into Lean Thinking and Supply Chain Management and has pioneered a number of key concepts, methods and applications in Europe and Australia, including: Supplier Associations, Value Stream Mapping and the Lean Business System.

He has written or co-written several books including “Creating World Class Suppliers” published by Pitman in 1994, “The Lean Enterprise” published by AMACOM in 1997, “Value Stream Management” published by Financial Times Prentice Hall in 2000, “Staying Lean” first published in 2008 (Shingo Research Award winner, 2009) and Creating a Lean & Green Business System in 2013 (Shingo Research Award winner, 2014).

Peter is the founder of S A Partners, a specialist consultancy organisation that assists companies to apply Lean. He also continues his academic links and is a Visiting Professor at Waterford Institute of Technology, Senior Certified Facilitator with The Shingo Institute at Utah State University and visiting roles in Universities across Europe and North America.

Research Fellowship

• Senior Research Fellowship, International Institute for Economic Studies (Toyota), Tokyo, October - December, 1994
• Visiting Research Scholarship, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, September - November, 1999
• Adjunct Professor, University of South Australia, 2006 - present

Principal Research Investigator

• Welsh Automotive Listing, Welsh Development Agency, 1992 (£10,000)
• Welsh Automotive Supplier Association Programme, Welsh Development Agency, 1993 -1994 (with Daniel Jones, £15,000)
• South Wales Innovation in Material Management Programme, DTI, 1992 -1995 (£25,000)
• VALUE Materials Management Programme, European Union, 1993 -1995 (£90,000)
• Supply Chain Development Programme, Corporate Sponsors, 1992 - 1997 (with Daniel Jones, David Jessop & Richard Lamming [Bath University], £800,000)
• Lean Enterprise Processing Programme, Innovative Manufacturing Initiative, EPSRC, 1997-1999 (with Dan Jones £750,000)
• Value Stream Mapping Programme, Various Companies, 1996 (£216,000)
• Lean Research Network, Various Companies, 1998 (£390,000)
• Three Day Car, Innovative Manufacturing Initiative, EPSRC & Various Companies, 1999 - 2001 (with Malcolm Harbour [ICDP], Andrew Graves [Bath University], £1,350,000)

Teaching Experience

• Course Co-ordinator for MBA in Supply Chain Management, Cardiff Business School, 1991 - 1997
• Course Deliverer: MSc Lean Operations, Cardiff Business School, 2000 - 2012

Professional Experience

Career

• February 1985 - September 1985: Stock Controller, Madison Cycles, London, England
• September 1985 - December 1988: Purchasing Manager, Madison Cycles, London, England
• December 1988 - March 1991: Supply Chain Manager, Spong Housewares, Crumlin, Wales
• March 1991 - February 1992: Freelance Consultant, Pontypool, Wales
• March 1992 - April 1994: Co-ordinator, Materials Management Unit, Cardiff Business
• School, Wales
• April 1994 - February 1997: Deputy Director, Lean Enterprise Research Centre, Cardiff
• Business School, Wales
• March 1997 - September 1999: Professor of Supply Chain Management, Co-Director, Lean
• Enterprise Research Centre, Cardiff Business School, Wales
• October 1999 - April 2008: Professor of Supply Chain Management, Director, LERC
• August 2004 - January 2008: PI & Director, Cardiff University IMRC
• June 2007- January 2014: Adjunct Professor, University of South Australia
• April 2008 - April 2010: Professor of Supply Chain Management, Chairman, LERC
• May 2010 - January 2012: Associate, LERC
• May 2010 - present: Chairman, S A Partners
• January 2015 - present: Visiting Professor, Waterford Institute of Technology Business School, Ireland

Academic Qualifications & Awards

• BA (MA), Cambridge University, June 1984 (William Vaughan Lewis Prize)
• MBA, Cardiff Business School, July 1992 (Alexander Duckhams Memorial Trophy)
• PhD, Cardiff Business School, September 1995 (European Federation of Quality Management Bronze Plate)
• The European Benchmarking Best Practice Benchmarking Award 1998 Academic Category
• Shingo Prize for Staying Lean book, 2009
• Shingo Prize for Creating a Lean & Green Business System book, 2014