Gauss
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) seen here on a German 10 Deutsche Mark banknote was a mathematician, astronomer, scientist noted for least […]
Category: Lean Sigma
Demand Segmentation Examples
Here are several examples of Demand Segmentation Analysis:
Moonlighting, Moonshining, Skunksworks, Trystorming and 3P
Moonlighting – work a second job, usually after hours; “The medical student is moonlighting as a taxi driver”. To work […]
Demand Segmentation
Traditional Product Quantity (PQ) or ABC analysis fails to recognize that high volume may not be predictable and that low volume can […]
Muda in the Warehouse
Although created in the manufacturing environment of Toyota by Taiichi Ohno, the Seven Wastes can be found almost everywhere, if you learn […]
PowerPoint and other miscommunications
Recently read Edward R. Tufte’s The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within and initially dismissed his thesis as troglodyte. Now […]
Bow Wave
Keeping due dates straight in an MRP environment is a fundamental prerequisite. Plot a time series for the number of work orders, […]
Hoshin X-Matrix
Over a few days or weeks we build the strategic deployment message by documenting our priorities and plans. This document is known […]
Hoshin Kanri
At long last we now have a number of recent readable guides for understanding and implementing policy deployment in your organization. My […]
Lee Hales
Today I had the good fortune to reacquaint myself with Lee Hales, president of High Performance Concepts and Richard Muther & Associates. […]
Month-end Madness
Do you have a “hockey stick”, where most of your bookings occur right at the end of the month, quarter, year? If […]
Safety Stock Calculation
When I first learned inventory planning the safety stock calculation math was rather simple. On top of the cycle stock (expected demand […]