The concept of backflushing is simple and has been put in place as a means of more quickly processing material through the shop floor, i.e. Work in Progress (WIP). The concept is that, rather than issuing material from inventory to the work order (job, batch…
From my experience in various MTO environments such as the Aerospace and Communications industries the Sales and Marketing departments have a reluctance to forecast business activity. There are three main reasons for this: They feel that it is difficult or impossible to estimate what a…
Not getting the return on investment for your ERP/MRP application? Most organizations have a certain degree of optimism when starting an implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning application. They have been assured by the vendor that after an implementation period of 3 to 4 months…
Most people in the Supply Chain profession understand the concept of cycle counting: the use of Pareto analysis to concentrate activities on those items that are, for cost or other reasons, strategically important to the organization. Most people also understand the classification of items into…
One of the reoccurring issues in planning when using a Material Requirements Planning (MRP) system concerns expiration dates of material in inventory. For example, if today is January 1st, there is a requirement for 50 of part A on February 15th, and there are 60…
International Rectifier, Mexico Excel is an excellent data-analysis tool. If you need to dissect, or “slice and dice” amounts of data there is probably no better tool available for regular business users. However, if Excel is used in business processes it has two inherent weaknesses;…
EPSON The Sales and Operations process is not well understood in many companies. The information that is collected by the Sales department is often inaccurate and incomplete, because unfortunately forecasting and gathering data is not the first priority of a sales department, but rather done…
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Selection Implementation Improvement Process Improvement Process/Value Stream Maps Sales and Operations Increase inventory turns MRP/Planning/Scheduling Good Manufacturing Practices APICS Body of Knowledge MRP/Planning/Scheduling Inventory/Backflushing Forecasting Lean Enterprise/5S Kanban Control Backflushing Inventory Control Waste reduction