On Time, In Full: Achieving Perfect Delivery with Lean Thinking in Purchasing, Supply Chain, and Production Planning

207 Pages·2017·6.65 MB·English

by  Timothy McLean

ON TIME, IN FULL
Achieving Perfect Delivery with Lean
Thinking in Purchasing, Supply Chain, and
Production Planning

ON TIME, IN FULL
Achieving Perfect Delivery with Lean
Thinking in Purchasing, Supply Chain, and
Production Planning
By
Timothy McLean
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Title: On time, in full : lean thinking in purchasing, supply chain, and
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Contents
Foreword ..................................................................................................xiii
Acknowledgments ...................................................................................xv
Introduction ...........................................................................................xvii
About This Book .....................................................................................xix
Author ......................................................................................................xxi
1 It Should Be So Simple— Why We Fail to Deliver ........................1
What You Will Learn in This Chapter ........................................................1
So What Is the Problem? .............................................................................1
Six Reasons Why Companies Have Too Much Stock and Can’ t Deliver ...3
Reason 1: The Customer Cannot Forecast Accurately ...........................3
Reason 2: Long Lead Times ....................................................................4
Reason 3: Big Batch Sizes and Big Shipment Quantities .......................4
Reason 4: Material Shortages ..................................................................6
Reason 5: Poor Factory Performance .....................................................7
Reason 6: Poor Warehouse and Logistics Practices ...............................8
Summary .....................................................................................................8
Key Points in Chapter 1 ..............................................................................9
2 Understanding Your Supply Chain ............................................11
What You Will Learn in This Chapter ......................................................11
What Is a Supply Chain? ...........................................................................12
The Most Important Supply Chain Metric: Delivery in Full on Time .....13
Lead Time: The Key Driver of DIFOT .....................................................15
Takt Time: Keeping Track of Whether You Are Keeping up with
Demand .....................................................................................................17
Push, Pull, and Flow .................................................................................17
Understanding Your Supply Chain with a Value Stream Map .................19
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Summary ...................................................................................................25
Key Points in Chapter 2 ............................................................................27
3 Understanding the Future— The Mystery of Forecasting ..........29
What You Will Learn in This Chapter ......................................................29
The Promise of Forecasting ......................................................................29
Can We Tell the Future? ............................................................................30
Forecasting and the Weather ....................................................................31
Importance of Significance .......................................................................32
Building a Forecast ...................................................................................32
Forecasting Raw Material Requirements ..................................................34
Low-Volume Products and Materials ........................................................36
Generating the Forecast ............................................................................36
Try Sensitivity Analysis .............................................................................37
Forecasting Tools ......................................................................................38
Demand Management: Maintaining the Forecast ....................................38
Key Points in Chapter 3 ............................................................................39
4 Can We Do It? Effective Sales and Operations Planning ...........41
What You Will Learn in This Chapter ......................................................41
Matching Capacity to Demand: The Foundation for On-Time Delivery ....41
Cycle Time and Takt Time: Developing a Simple Rough-Cut
Capacity Model ..........................................................................................43
More Advanced Capacity Models .............................................................45
Only Analyze Capacity at the Bottleneck Process ...................................46
Sales and Operations Planning Process ...................................................49
Demand Review ........................................................................................51
Supply Review ...........................................................................................52
Sales and Operations Planning Meeting ..................................................53
Overview of S&OP ...................................................................................55
Key Points in Chapter 4 ............................................................................55
5 Managing Inventory— If You Do Not Have It, You Cannot
Sell It .........................................................................................57
What You Will Learn in This Chapter ......................................................57
Do You Need Inventory?...........................................................................57
The Other Finished Goods Strategy: Make-to-Order ..............................58
Managing Your Finished Goods Strategy .................................................59
How Much Inventory Do You Need of Make-to-Stock Items? ................60
Calculating Safety Stock ............................................................................61
Contents ◾ ix
Avoiding the Knee-Jerk Response to a Shortage .....................................64
Types of Pull Replenishment ....................................................................65
Kanban Cards ............................................................................................67
Other Forms of Pull Systems ....................................................................70
Virtual Kanban ..........................................................................................71
Stock-Outs: A Leading Indicator of On-Time, In-Full Performance ........71
Inventory Record Accuracy .......................................................................72
Managing Make-to-Order Supply to Achieve On-Time, In-Full
Delivery .....................................................................................................72
Summary ...................................................................................................74
6 What Should We Make Next? The Keys to Production
Scheduling .................................................................................77
What You Will Learn in This Chapter ......................................................77
What to Do Next: The Planning Question ...............................................78
Typical Production Planning Scenario .....................................................79
Managing Production Flow with a Pacemaker ........................................81
Finding the Correct Unit of Measure and Pitch Interval .........................82
Using a Load Leveling Box .......................................................................82
How Long Should the Pitch Interval Be? .................................................84
Overview of Pacemakers and Pitch .........................................................86
Deciding What Product to Make Next at the Pacemaker ........................87
Understanding Your Product Mix and Building the Product Cycle ........87
Running the Cycle .....................................................................................90
Leveling the Product Mix ..........................................................................91
Product Wheels .........................................................................................91
Summary ...................................................................................................92
7 Managing Your Inbound Supply Chain .....................................95
What You Will Learn in This Chapter ......................................................95
So Why Do Material Shortages Occur? ....................................................97
Deciding the Right Level of Material Inventory .......................................98
Why Do Shortages Occur? ......................................................................100
Reducing the Replenishment Interval ....................................................100
Reducing Supplier Lead Time .................................................................103
Reducing Demand and Supply Variability .............................................106
Summary .................................................................................................107
8 Making Your International Supply Chain Work ......................109
What You Will Learn in This Chapter ....................................................109