BOM Profile Diagnostic
BOM (Bill Of Material) is a list of the raw materials, sub-assemblies, intermediate assemblies, sub-components, parts, and the quantities of each needed […]
Category: Supply Chain
Starboard Navigator – Logistics Network Optimization Software
Starboard Navigator is a reasonably priced cloud-based application for designing and optimizing supply chain logistic networks. Creating products, customers, facilities, lanes is […]
Logistics Network Model
New trade agreements, shifting customer and supplier locations, changing labor and freight rates, fuel costs, new products and markets all conspire to […]
Measuring Supply Chain Forecast Accuracy
Measuring Supply Chain Forecast Accuracy is usually done with Mean Absolute Percent Error or MAPE, the average of percentage errors. But there […]
Kanban and Sustainability
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Demand Segmentation – one size fits none
We know better than to try to force fit strategies yet time and again we find businesses planning and managing their processes […]
Lean Sales Forecasting
Why can’t Sales give us a decent forecast? Paraphrasing George E.P. Box, “All forecasts are wrong, some are useful.” If forecasts are […]
Safety Stock – How To
Safety stock is an additional quantity held in inventory in order to reduce the risk that an item will be out of […]
Material Classification Logic
Bruce asked “Do any of you have any standard material classification logic that you have used. I’m working with a client to […]
Square Root Law – inventory in multiple locations
Got asked what would happen to inventory when the number of inventory stocking locations change. I thought for a minute and remembered […]
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 […]