• Building Manufacturing Competitiveness , Focused Execution , Manufacturing , Operational Excellence ,
• Tags: IIPE, manufacturing news
• 31 Mar

The performance of Manufacturing is measured by Throughput i.e. number of pieces or quantity of goods produced over a period of time daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly etc. Improvement in its performance is tracked and rewarded based on increased Throughput during the given time period. Rewards for those working in manufacturing plants and factories are

• Building Manufacturing Competitiveness , Industry Problem , IT Service , Lean , Manufacturing , Pharmaceutical Industry ,
• Tags: forecasting, pull based system, supply chain
• 22 Aug

Manufacturers have often worried about difficulty of a pure play pull based system to sudden changes in demand. Often forecasting is resorted to get the required responsiveness but at a cost. Read the following to know how one can get the best of pull based system and forecasting. The Supply Chain: Where Push and Pull

• Breakthrough Performance , Building Manufacturing Competitiveness , Business Thinking , change management , Manufacturing , Operations , Production Engineering , The Path , Theory of Constraints , TOC ,
• Tags: measurement, OTIF, supply reliability
• 06 May

Last Monday when I visited Michael, he said, “We have a big problem… We fared awfully bad in the customer satisfaction survey conducted by a third party. This is despite our OTIF being at 97%.” And then he said, “Unfortunately, an investigation revealed that the OTIF calculated by our customers was between 30 to 44%.”