Tag: Strategy
What level of availability should my warehouse give?
This is a question that arises with frightening regularity. Although we generally want both availability and stock turn to continue improving over the long term (and there are various methods of achieving that), nonetheless there are some theoretical limits to those numbers, together with a requirement to decide the availability target for right now. Let’s [...]
Categories: Thought Pieces.
Tags: availability, customer service, DRP, Inventory Management, storage, Strategy, supply chain design, Warehousing
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Six sigma backlash
Is there a developing backlash against Six Sigma? Scott Adams published a Dilbert strip in November last year with the punchline “Why don’t we jump on a fad that hasn’t already been widely discredited?” (Dilbert strips are now available online for only one month, but Gemba Panta Rei provide a full transcript in a post [...]
Categories: Thought Pieces.
Tags: Six Sigma, Strategy
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