With labor, plastics, chips, cans and many other global shortages, demand is far greater than supply for many manufacturers. The question is: How best do …
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Allocation of Insufficient Supply
Category Archives: General-Business
How to Define a Mission that Matters
Saying your mission is to be the best at whatever it is that you do, using whatever technology you use, is meaningless to the outside …
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Why Mission Matters to Your Business
Mission, vision, and core value statements were once considered serious. And then fluff, because companies had them, but didn’t live them. Thank goodness we’re never …
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Your Age of Discontinuity
I wish we would all quit acting like everything was “normal,” implying steady and predictable, before Covid. It’s like we’ve all decided to recall “the …
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Attracting the Best Candidates
As manufacturers are searching high and low for employees, it is crucial that we not make bad hiring decisions out of a sense of desperation. …
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How Fast Should You Improve?
Today’s topic is “how fast should your company improve?” While the bottom-line answer is the same for most all manufacturers, it is worth first looking …
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How User Controlled Pull Impacts Manufacturing
People want what they want when they want it. That’s hardly a crazy concept; just one most manufacturers don’t believe applies to them. But it …
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What is Strategic Inventory?
While the integral role of supply chain, which includes inventory decisions, has become more obvious to everyone, and college degrees in supply chain are increasing, …
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How to Learn From Experience
Well, you’ve certainly had a chance to see just how strong your supply chain is, as well as how well your organization can plan and …
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Killing Customer Service
I believe Operations should be responsible for customer retention and customer service. Marketing creates awareness, Sales brings in new customers, and it is operational performance …
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