Week 36 – Sustain Success With Control
Good strategy and tactics can be wasted if proper control is not used effectively. Find out how to establish reliable control.
Week 35 – Strategy to Action: Tactics
Strategy without action is daydreaming. We describe the business system framework and tactics needed to achieve successful results repeatedly and sustainably.
Week 34 – Make Strategy Work
The laws and concepts of operations science are like an objective third party referee passing judgment on what strategies are or are not feasible. Operations science doesn’t care if you believe in it or not. It dictates outcomes either way.
Week 33 – Operations Science Applied
Once you have seen your operations through Operations Science Applied, you will never look at operations the same way as you did before. You will be on your way to predictable, sustainable success.
Week 32 – Inventory Management Mistakes, Finale
Safety stock is often seen as a holy grail for ensuring good customer service and optimal inventory levels. It is often miscalculated and mismanaged.
Batch Time Demonstration
Batch time is usually one of the largest components of cycle time. We provide a simple simulation to illustrate the dynamics.
Week 31 – Inventory Management Mistakes, Part 4
In trying to keep things simple when making delivery promises to customers, companies unintentionally make planning and execution less effective and less efficient.
Week 30 – Inventory Management Mistakes, Part 3
Inventory policy should use the parameters of your environment along with operations science and math to help you adjust to variability yet arrive at planned performance as expected.
Week 29 – Inventory Management Mistakes, Part 2
We have seen inventory managers and planners make the mistake of monitoring on-hand to determine how much inventory they should order. This is an incomplete approach and we describe the appropriate measure for good control.
Week 28 – Inventory Management Mistakes, Part 1
We explore a widespread error in inventory management which is very basic, very harmful to customer service and cost, and easy to fix.