Most books on Supply Chain Management simply focus on how to move materials and key resources throughout an industrial enterprise. Reinventing Lean shows how SCM can be made "Lean, " leading to much ...more reliable, cost-effective and competitive Supply Chain Management" (SCM). In this book, the reader will find a collection of management tools that will help to implement Lean principles, and to understand the components of an integrated Supply Chain Management system. Moreover, the book will show that to make Lean SCM effective, both the functional management tools as well as an enterprise-wide cultural readiness are needed in order to lay the groundwork for a World Class Lean Supply Chain. Reinventing Lean will carefully lead engineers and manufacturing managers on how to adopt a cutting-edge Lean Supply Chain strategy. The book will lay out various proven approaches to incorporating Lean and SCM practices, by focusing on the ways in which SCM relates to materials, money, and information movement within the manufacturing environment. And because Reinventing Lean recognizes that a successful Lean SCM system cannot be achieved unless an organization supports team integration and the willingness to adapt to change, it provides not only the technical tools but also methods for changing company cultural factors that can make it all come together for a successful operation. * Industrial engineers and plant managers, with strong backgrounds in SCM, will learn how lean management principles can be utilized to make their organizations leaner, more efficient, and more competitive * Readers will find out how to lay out various approaches to incorporating Lean and SCM practices * Readers can learn how to customize a cutting-edge Lean Supply Chain strategy which will give a distinct advantage over the competition
This paper looks at the successes and disappointments of MRP. It studies numerous articles to determine what the key shortcomings of MRP are. Next, it investigates if these failures are correctable, ...and what the consequences of not correcting these deficiencies means. This article considers alternatives that have been discussed in the current literature. Last of all this article discusses whether the improvements these alternatives suggest are sufficient to make MRP worth salvaging, or whether MRP is a system that needs to be discarded in favor of systems such as JIT (Just-in-Time), Optimized Production Technology (OPT), Theory of Constraints (TOC), and Bottleneck Allocation Methodology (BAM).
Finite capacity promising Taylor, Sam G; Plenert, Gerhard J
Production and inventory management journal,
09/1999, Letnik:
40, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Finite capacity promising is a technique for calculating available-to-promise capacities over the schedule horizon. FCP complements finite and, like traditional available-to-promise techniques, helps ...firms established valid order due dates.
This article demonstrates how geometric programming can be used to solve an industrial bottleneck with an unlimited number of products and multiple constraints. It shows how the basic constrained ...economic order quantity (EOQ) model can be expanded to solve two forms of the constraint. Then an algorithm is developed to solve most multiply constrained bottlenecks. The model is diagrammed, formulated, and programmed. It is then tested against a case example to demonstrate its effectiveness.
Manufacturing and the manufacturing process have changed dramatically over the last ten years. The measurement and data collection systems stemming from the accounting, finance, and data processing ...organizations have not only resisted this change, but also, in some cases, have prevented improvements. This resistance stems primarily from outsiders' (MIS or accounting staffs, etc.) lack of understanding of the changes. Another reason for this resistance is that manufacturers are frustrated with the inconsistency (seeming lack of direction) of many of these changes. However, all manufacturers are being forced to react to some general areas of change, in spite of the on-again, off-again fads. These directions of change will be the focus of this paper. Additionally, this paper will analyze the accounting interface changes that need to be considered as a result of these trends.
This paper takes a modern day fad, Total Quality Management (TQM), and puts structure behind all the philosophy to make it usable and implementable. TQM is a methodology for change that is badly ...needed in modern industrial processes, but the understanding of it is often too fuzzy to be directly implementable. This article offers step by step implementable procedures.
This paper takes the development of a new optimization process for production scheduling and develops it into a systematic-mathematical algorithm. It tests this algorithm against a simulated ...production environment and compares the generated schedules against those generated by EOQ. MRP, JIT, and OPT.
Successful performance is found in a meaningfully structured measurement system focused on results rather than on data collection. Precision Printers Inc. was a company that was structured and ...focused on volume. Quality, which was secondary, was not used as a measure of employee performance. A shift was made to eliminate the volume measure and focus on measuring quality performance in the belief that driving for quality would result in volume increases, but driving for volume would not improve quality. The transition occurred as a series of stages: production planning training, total quality management training, goal/measurement system redesign, setting up Quality Week, team-based empowerment, and ongoing continuous improvement programs. Each area is discussed.
