This is part of my blog series on using the principles of Demand Drive MRP and its five primary components. This particular blog focuses around Strategic Inventory Positioning or in the marketing sense, positioning your organization to learn from your customers. In DDMRP, Strategic Inventory Positioning The first question of effective inventory management is not Read More …
“Demand-Driven manufacturing is a manufacturing requires a fundamental shift form the centrality of inventory to the centrality of demand. To be successful, company must be able to sense and adapt to market changes.” – This is from the Orlicky’s Material Requirements Planning 3/E.written by my recent podcast guest Carol Ptak and Chad Smith of the Read More …
Is Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning the blueprint for the future and revitalization of formal planning in the 21st Century? Some people think so as Carol Ptak and Chad Smith were asked to co-author the new Orlicky’s Material Requirements Planning 3/E. But more impressive are the full houses of practitioners that Carol and Chad are Read More …
When are Lean Thinking, A3 Problem Solving, PDCA, Kaizen and Continuous Improvement not enough? There is actually a time when considering small incremental improvements are the wrong thing to do. When you are dealing with a high degree of uncertainty, there still needs to be a process in place. If not, you may end up Read More …
There has been a fair amount written about designing a customer experience and more specifically how the interpretation of theater can help. The most ready reference on the subject is Interactive Services Marketing by Ray Fisk, Steve Grove and Joby John. Service theater is based on the metaphor of services as theater, which they have Read More …
Games are invading the real world — and the runaway popularity of Farmville and Guitar Hero is just the beginning, says Jesse Schell. At the DICE Summit, he makes a startling prediction: a future where 1-ups and experience points break “out of the box” and into every part of our daily lives. PS3 Games – Read More …