Just taking a break from the drama surrounding my new program to report that I was informed my old program hit 12 inventory turns before I left. Combined with 100% on time delivery and excess & obsolete below 0.5% of material cost of goods sold, I’m going out on a limb and claiming it as a textbook ...
I know I said I would “live-blog” the process I go through when taking responsibility for materials management on a program, but I took a detour that will wind up being incredibly valuable. Someday. Among my career experiences I was fortunate to work in marketing for a period of time when a new VP w ...
Most of the manufacturing entities with which we come into contact want to use their new ERP system for production scheduling purposes. One of the first questions that people tend to ask us regarding this topic is, “Can you change production schedules via drag and drop?” While this feature demos wel ...
7 years of production management experience. Production scheduling and maintenance background. Complex, engineered product. Managed up to 50. Great motivator! A “Go Getter”.
I was reading on Tom Spencer’s blog about the Hawthorn effect. It reminded me of an experience in a large pharmaceutical company that manufactured a variety of consumer products. It had customer service problems and was never achieving the volume to meet its production schedule and, ultimately, cust ...
