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Don’t play chicken with your supply chain
Did you get all the chicken wings you wanted to accompany your Super Bowl experience? Thank the NHL. Did they cost more than last year? Blame ethanol. Several weeks ago, the National Chicken Council issued a warning that production was down this year due primarily to rising feed prices. Rumors of a chicken wing shortage spread like wildfire.
Accountability and Motivations
March 2013.
Advice and Assistance for Manufacturers.
One key aspect of S&OP is that it is the mechanism for connecting the demand side (forecasting and demand management) with the supply side (production).
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A Time-Tested Technique
Material requirements planning (MRP) is the calculation of potential shortages and replenishment activity from the master schedule using the bill of material and inventory availability data. Developed in the early 1950s, the basic approach still is at the center of every enterprise resources planning (ERP) system more than half a century later.
Too Much or Not Enough?
Supply chain and operations management professionals have a love-hate relationship with inventory. In production, there’s nothing worse than getting ready to start a job and discovering that parts are unavailable. Likewise, from a customer service perspective, it’s impossible to fulfill customer demand without the right amount of the right inventory at the right time. People in our profession love having parts and products when we need them, but hate any amount of inventory that ties up company money; takes up space; and causes extra, non-value adding work to handle, store, count, and manage.
Are Lean and ERP incompatible?
October 2012.
Advice for Manufacturers.
In the earlier days of the spread of Lean Manufacturing, there was a perception among many that you have to make a choice – Lean or ERP.
Inventory, flexibility, and lead times
September 2012.
Advice and Assistance for Manufacturers.
Inventory is always a topic of interest for manufacturing people – there’s always too much overall, never enough of what you really need when you need it, and inventory ties up a lot of the company’s cash so it has the attention of executive management.
Deciding when to ‘push’ and when to ‘pull’
In manufacturing and distribution, there are differing approaches to inventory management characterized as either “push” or “pull.
Spring Cleaning
April 2012.
Advice and Assistance for Manufacturers.
When the snow season has passed and it’s no longer painful to spend time outside in the open air, it’s time to drag out the patio furniture, put away the snow blower and shovels, and, while you’re at it, do some cleaning and organizing. You know, take care of all that stuff that accumulated during the winter months… old and broken household items, things you don’t really need anymore but it was convenient to just store them rather than dispose of them?
WIP Inventory
March 2012. Advice and Assistance for Manufacturers. Raw materials and parts inventory is maintained at a level that is required to meet the needs of the plant based on the production schedule and adjusted by procurement considerations like lot sizing
