This website is devoted to selecting, building, implementing and using supply chain models for making better business decisions. All businesses have used Management reports for decades to judge where they have been and help them […]
The combination of all the issues: capacity, more frequent scheduling, time-phased scheduling (20+ weeks out), analysis of multiple potential scenarios and greater accuracy provides a much clearer picture of the current situation and what to […]
When you have a clearer picture of the supply chain situation plus a radar of the future then you understand what to do and when you must act. Basically, you can monitor a developing situation […]
The power of a production scheduling model is a function of the intelligence that is built into its it’s design and it’s algorithms. Here is a sample. We want you to understand what is going […]
The organization of the model formats the information for maximum visibility of the current situation and over 20 weeks into the future. Everything about the model is arranged to make it easy to change scheduling […]
A typical schedule process is broken down into gathering the dynamic data; analyzing and generating the schedule; communicating the new schedule to the organization. 90% of the total cycle time is spent on the first […]
Manufacturing capacity is affected by the slowest rate of any piece of equipment in the manufacturing process. Many times, the same equipment is used for making multiple products. When this is the case, it is […]
A supply chain perspective is really a different way of thinking about your business. More like a complex engine with lots of moving parts. However, those parts need to operate in harmony and synchronized in […]
From a manufacturing perspective longer runs and larger batches are more efficient and less costly. However when too much product is made or bought then there is the risk of the product expiring. Therefore it […]