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Building to Customer Demand |
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.
"Tom Wallace and Bob Stahl have hit the nail on the head! What they describe is how we do it at Dell - and it certainly works for us."
Greg Kelly
Director, Americas Order Fulfillment
Dell Inc.
"Tom Wallace and Bob Stahl have done it again. Building to Customer Demand should have a significant impact on the future of supply chain management."
Dave Reed
President, Little Tikes
A Division of Newell Rubbermaid
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
This book includes numerous examples of real-world companies using the Postponement process and how they do it.
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