Table top simulation – dock operations
Simulation is the act of imitating or mimicking the behavior of some situation or some process by means of something suitably analogous. […]
Month: June 2011
Safety Stock to Bridge the Forecast-Accuracy Gap
(From David McPhetrige, founder of TopDown Lean Systems, LLC, providing correct, comprehensive, multi-attribute safety stock analysis, http://topdownleansystems.com.) Surveys indicate that even world-class […]
Total Flow Management
Euclides A. Coimbra and his associates at the Kaizen Institute have created a wonderful and detailed work on the application of continuous […]
Replenishment Strategies
Determining an appropriate production model starts with Demand Profile and Demand Segmentation. High volume low variability items, and low volume high variability […]
Building a Lean Fulfillment Stream
Hot off the press from the Lean Enterprise Institute … Page 12 & 13 have a brief description of Coefficient […]
Coefficient of Variation
A measure of the volatility or spread of a time series around the average, for example of customer orders, aka Demand Linearity, […]
Demand Profile
Maslow’s hammer, or a golden hammer is an over-reliance on a familiar tool; as Abraham Maslow said in 1969 in A Psychology […]