"Inventory DOES Matter" Newsletter
In November 2008 we will be launching our first bi-monthly e-newsletter called "Inventory DOES Matter."
With each issue, we'll be offering subscribers access to one of our practical inventory managment tools - available for free download from our website.
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Extending
The Pareto Principle
outlines the K Curve Principle. Based on a research project by IBM/ACME
where the technique was first developed. BPICS Control Journal,
April/May 1990.
Improved
Inventory Performance Into The 21st Century
examines inventory optimising approaches by comparing traditional
Pareto-based ABC with the K Curve strategy. BPCIS Control Journal,
June/July 1994.
Inventory
Management - K Curve Case Study
shows how the Caradon MK Cable Management Division reduced inventory
by 45% (more than £1.5 million) and increased complete and
on-time deliveries by over 10%. IOM Control Journal, Vol. 25 - No.
02, March 1999.
Multi-Item
Inventory Control - K Curve Methodology
compares complex mathematical optimising with the more pragmatic
K Curve approach. First published as a working paper by Mike Schwarz
at the Faculty of Mathematics, Hamburg University, August 1999.
Overage
Inventory - How does it occur and why is it important?
examines overage - or excess inventory. International Journal of
Production Economics, Vol. 81-83, 2003.
Planning
To Meet Customer Demand
explores how mass customisation can improve the flow of material
down the supply chain. IOM Control Journal, Vol. 23 - No. 4, May
1998.
The
First Steps To Inventory Management
looks at the basics of ABC control. IOM Control Journal, Vol. 28
- No. 10, December 2002/January 2003.
Professional
Inventory Management
discusses inventory optimisation at aggregate and item level. IOM
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Who Murdered MRP? - An Industrial Mystery
Case studies of common problems in Materials Requirements Planning
and Business Systems - as told by hard-boiled detective Conrad Sultant.
These tongue-in-cheek stories by Geoff Relph and Robert Irwin first
appeared in Control, the journal of the Institute of Operations
Management.
Episode
1: The Clue of Borrowed Capacity
Did Manufacturing killed off MRP by borrowing capacity from future
weeks?
Episode
2: The Capacity Smoothing Clue
MRP output isn't accurate. Is capacity smoothing by Production the
culprit?
Episode
3: The Clue of The Long Time Ago Order
Did Engineering poison MRP with inaccurate data?
Episode
4: The Clue of The Long Overdue Order
Was MRP buried alive under 3,200 overdue orders because Finance
wants control?
Episode
5: The Clue of The Missing Free Issue
Were Purchasing's manual records the bullet that killed MRP?
Episode
6: A Meeting At Midnight
Conrad Sultant gets back to MRP first principles - and unmasks the
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