Improving operations and quoting accurate lead times in a laminate plant

Improving operations and quoting accurate lead times in a laminate plant

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Article ID: iaor20012654
Country: United States
Volume: 30
Issue: 5
Start Page Number: 1
End Page Number: 15
Publication Date: Sep 2000
Journal: Interfaces
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Keywords: production, computers, manufacturing industries
Abstract:

The important requirement of quoting short and accurate lead times to customers in industrial supply chains is a difficult challenge as it requires coordination between purchasing, order-entry, scheduling and inventory-control groups. We meet this challenge at a laminate plant where the customer demands (in timing and quantity) are variable, the production processes have uncertain yield, the variety of products is high, and manufacturing involves significant switch-over costs and times between products – through the use of inventory management with cyclic scheduling, along with many concurrent improvements in supplier managment, customer relations, product design, and quality.

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