The one Crucial ingredient you need to ensure your OPEX program is successful
Industrial organizations have a clear understanding – the performance of the factory (factories) and their logistics is critical to their business success. It affects their competitiveness (as it dictates the proposed service levels and price), it affects their customer satisfaction (through actual service levels) and it affects profits, cash flow and profitability and return on […]
The one key focus your operational excellence initiative should have
The term “Operational Excellence” seems to be relatively young, but operationally based organizations are seeking it forever. Operational Excellence is a relatively new name for ages old effort to make operations better (what is better?). Over the last 60-70 years the operational world is progressing through leaps of advancement of knowledge and technology. Since […]
Reliability of Supply – How noise increases noise…Or how sales success can eventually end with sales failure
Sometimes companies are in, what seems to be a wonderful situation – the demand is big, so big it seems there is not enough capacity to handle all of it. Unfortunately, when this stage is reached it commonly comes along with increasing difficulties to supply the customers demands reliably. This is to be expected. What […]