World Class Production and Inventory Management

"Today competitive pressures are such that companies no longer have the luxury of a sequential implementation approach to multiple technologies. "

"If the formal system doesn't provide people with the necessary information to do their jobs, an informal one will appear."

"Rather than get bogged down in hundreds or even thousands of individual items, the general manager and staff can keep a clear focus on the big picture and make better decisions."

"Well managed companies have found that stabilizing the top-level plans creates enormous productivity improvements; all functions operate more smoothly and effectively."

"Retailers have a far greater vision for their businesses than simply replacing a reorder point system at their distribution centers with Distribution Resource Planning."

"The master scheduler creates a Master Production Schedule on an item-by-item basis, attempting to balance the demands of the marketplace with the limitations that exist in manufacturing."

"If you can't take the top-level plans of the company and convert them into tasks that people can be held accountable for accomplishing, then you might as well be making no plans at all."

"Capacity planning answers the questions, What do you need and when do you need it?"

"Surveys have shown that companies using supplier scheduling consistently get much higher delivery performance and much lower purchase costs than companies that don't."

"The first step is a means of assessing where a company is today in order to establish a starting point."

"Given the basic planning and control tools that they've needed for years, people can now do an excellent job in areas in which excellence was simply not achievable before."