November 17, 2008  

Hi MBBP Subscribers,  

If you're still scheduling your factory and suppliers with outputs from a Material Requirement Planning System (MRP), you most likely are experiencing the costly and stress generating "End-of-the-Month Crunch."  

It wasn't until late in my manufacturing career that I became aware of the need to get MRP off the shop floor and out of short-term procurement scheduling. Lean manufacturing techniques i.e. sequential production, linearity, point-of-use logistics, and team empowerment became my new focus for exceeding personal and company performance expectations. 

If you're having problems coping with forecast errors, inside of lead time orders, late engineering changes and nervous requirements planning scheduling, don't pass up this week's MBBP HEADS-UP: "A Paradigm Shift."

Have a nice day, and stay connected.

Bill Gaw
Business Basics, LLC
bg@bbasicsllc.com
760-945-5596    

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