Supply Chain Agility: A Global Strategy For The Next Decade
Accelerate new product introduction, or quickly change your product mix. Maneuver orders through the organization quickly. Get ideas off the drawing board and into the market place faster. Move parts through your plants with turbo velocity. Use agility as one of your most powerful strategic weapons!!
The U.S. market share in key industries has eroded over 25 years to offshore competitors. While foreign competitors are delivering high quality products, U.S. factories preoccupy themselves with fixing mistakes. Progress has been made, but it's slow as our attempts to correct this situation have been in bits and pieces--relying heavily on MRP, CIM, TQM, and JIT.
The key to the future lies in refocusing and redesigning the entire business--both physically and logically--to meet the demands of the market. This means radically changing the way we manage ourselves--taking dramatic steps to become more agile than ever before, and keying in on fundamentals of flow and time throughout the organization. Those successfully emerging from the radical change will be the winners and leaders, the quick resourceful agile enterprises.
This presentation describes what it takes to get to that plateau. The flow of parts--from supply to the shop floor to the customer--must be streamlined; processes must be integrated and set-ups reduced. The information chain and the management structure must be streamlined as well. The result will be an organization that can respond quickly to market changes and its competition--and the benefits are substantial. But it requires getting physical and agile.
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