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Strategy and Tactics

This eDocument will show you how to build a Startegy and Tactics Tree.

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Golden nugget 10: MTA + MTO Mixed environment

Operating in a partly MTA, partly MTO environment.

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Golden nugget 11: Light blue 1, or: A way to exploit the protective capacity – Have your cake and e

How can we make sure that the proper amount of protective capacity will be maintained?

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Golden nugget 12: Light blue 2, or: A way to exploit the protective capacity using orders (as oppos

Processing clients’ orders by the protective capacity.

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Golden nugget 13: Reaching the plateau of the U-curve

In a recent audit of an MTO company (producing metal cables of the kind that is used for holding elevators), two mysteries were evident.

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Golden nugget 13: Reaching the plateau of the U-curve, or: 
 When the 4 colors are not enough (CLON)

In a recent audit of an MTO company (producing metal cables of the kind that is used for holding elevators), two mysteries were evident.

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Golden nugget 14: Sustaining Continuous Growth

Deepen our cause and effect understanding that underlie the mechanisms for further increase of capacity and for adjusting the buffers.

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Golden nugget 15: Freezing in projects

To diminish bad multi-tasking in projects environment we use, as an integral part of the Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) solution, the freeze mechanism.

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Golden nugget 1: The Evergreen Elephant

Managing production priorities in an Make to Availability environment is simple when using the Theory of Constraints buffer management solution.

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Golden nugget 2: The Stray Elephant

When initially determining the proper buffer target, we need to determine the maximum consumption within replenishment time.

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Golden nugget 3: Immunizing against competitors’ price reduction

Avoid that a competitor can still easily win by simply reducing prices

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Golden nugget 4: Inventory target, Asymmetric time constants

When experiencing a decline or increase of consumption for an SKU, the inventory target should be changed accordingly.

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Golden nugget 5: Assessing super rapid time at an early stage

Fully enroll the Rapid Response (RR) offer, without taking a risk of deteriorating Reliability.

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Golden nugget 6: Fine tune of the priority system – an exception

Handling priorities in situations where there are product families with considerably different production buffers.

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Golden nugget 7: Minimum batch progression

There are times that a technical consideration at a certain work-center forces us to process a minimum batch which is bigger than the order.

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Golden nugget 8: When you say “red”, what do you mean?

When we are told that a production company has 20% red orders, what does that mean?

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Golden nugget 9: Color Psychology

How come the inventories in regional warehouses were lowered by just 10% after starting a Viable Vision implementation?

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S&T Tree - Consumer Goods - Inventory Turns

This eDocument shows you the strategy & tactics to ensure 100% availability with minimum stock.

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S&T Tree - Moving from MTS to MTA

Create a decisive competitive edge based on extremely good inventory turns.

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S&T Tree - Project Management

Create a decisive competitive edge based on Critical Chain for Project Management.

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S&T Tree - Reliable Rapid Response

Create a decisive competitive edge based on reliability and rapid response to customer needs.

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TOC-TP Categories of Legitimate Reservation (CLR)

Learn the rules for scrutinizing the validity and logical of thinking processes.

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