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 […]
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 […]
Telling consultants what to do…
Paraphrasing Steve Jobs … “It doesn’t make sense to hire smart consultants and then tell them what to do; we hire smart […]
Lean Product Development Videos Worth Watching
Don Reinertsen An introduction to Lean Product Development Flow Allan Ward Allen Ward presentation of Lean Product Development Dr. Allen Ward […]
Product Development Best Practices
Most product development teams fail to meet their full potential. They consume more resources than is necessary to test, evaluate, refine their […]
18 Long Lead Time Purchasing Strategies
In project management the long pole is the part of the project that is on the critical path due to how long […]
Warehouse Slotting
What Is Warehouse Product Slotting? Warehouse Product Slotting is defined as the intelligent location of product in a warehouse or distribution center […]
Scientific Method and Improvement Kata
Scientific Method is the systematic observation, measurement, experimentation, formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses. Hypotheses are a supposition or proposed explanation made […]
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 […]
10 Things to Improve Forecast Accuracy
Forecasts are never right but you can improve your forecast accuracy … You can’t improve what you don’t measure Aggregate – individual […]
Not so ‘Good to Great’
An executive asked my opinion about having his staff all read Good to Great by Jim Collins (2001). It’s been years since […]