Title: Building to Customer Demand

Date:	2005
ISBN:	0-9674884-6-X

The process of building to customer demand has enabled companies
to ship a wide variety of products; to provide very short lead times; to carry little or no finished goods inventory and thereby to compete effectively with offshore manufacturers. Topics include: Eliminating Trade-Offs, The Concept of Postponement: Finishing the Product Only after Receipt of the Customer Order, The Speed/Simplicity Matrix: Getting from Where You Are to Postponement, Tools for Postponement:
Lean Manufacturing, Modular Product Design, Sales & Operations Planning, Two-level Master Scheduling, Finishing Product Outside the Plant - Closer to the Customer, The Critical Role of the "Outside Factory" - the Suppliers, Implementing Postponement: How to Make It Happen,
Key Performance Indicators for Postponement. Non-members can purchase this book for £30.00

Author
Wallace, Thomas F; Stahl, Robert A

Price
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