How to Decrease Supply Chain Lead Times for High-Mix and Custom Products
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Course Overview
This course will present how to use manufacturing critical-path time (MCT) to evaluate supply chain performance and utilize the principles of quick response manufacturing to reduce long lead times in your supply chain. The course will include presentation, group discussions, and hands-on exercises.
Course Outline
Intro by Jenny Patzlaff, Supply Chain Practice Director, UW E-Business Consortium
Overview of Quick Response Manufacturing
- Understanding the power of time and the response time spiral
Using MCT as a performance metric
- How to measure MCT and apply it to your supply chain
Supplier metrics
- Comparing MCT to traditional metrics of cost, quality, and on-time delivery
Truck loading criteria
- Moving from a cost-based to a time-based perspective when making logistics decisions
System dynamics principles
- Importance of spare capacity and small batch flow
- Demonstration of trade-offs
Outside operations (subcontracting)
- Using time slicing for a shared or subcontracted process
Make vs. buy decisions
- True cost of sourcing
- Dual sourcing
- Choosing a second source based on MCT and responsiveness
Delayed differentiation
- Benefits of this strategy
- Case examples
Multi-tiered concurrent planning
- Cooperating across the supply chain for sales & operations planning
Office cells
- How to organize office resources into quick response cells to manage sales & operations planning, purchasing, and supplier development
Relationship between time reduction and cost reduction
- Using the Power of 6 rule to relate cost reduction with lead time reduction (and vice versa)
How to Decrease Supply Chain Lead Times
Course #: RA18014How to Decrease Supply Chain Lead Times for High-Mix and Custom Products
Date: Wed. July 13, 2022 – Wed. July 13, 2022ID: RA18014-C593
Fee:
- $495
- Fee covers scheduled lunches, afternoon breaks and course materials.
QRM Center Members: $295 per person
- CEU: .7
- PDH: 7
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