Your schedule keeps slipping
A schedule that looks right on Monday and is gone by Wednesday.
"Our production schedule is always behind and nobody can tell me why."
A schedule slips for a reason, and the reason is almost never that the planner is careless. It is that the schedule is built on numbers the floor knows are wrong.
That is a planning problem with a system underneath it. Sometimes the system is the thing to change. More often what it is fed, and who is accountable for feeding it, is the thing to change.
One global production planning and inventory control system, installed at Positronic Amphenol across North America, Europe and Asia. SAP schedule adherence and inventory accuracy work at Carlisle Interconnect. ERP and warehouse systems at Cogent Analytics that cut lead times.
Questions about this one
- Do you implement the software?
- The operation is the job; the system is part of it. Rollouts here have gone in across three continents and on SAP.
- We already have an ERP and it is not working.
- That is the common case. What it is fed, and who owns feeding it, is usually where the problem actually lives.
The other five reasons people call
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The seat is empty
Your plant manager just left
The seat is filled while you find the right permanent person.
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Orders are late
You are missing what you promised customers
On-time delivery is the number your customers judge you on.
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Cash is stuck in stock
Too much cash tied up in inventory
Cash sitting in parts nobody needs this quarter.
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The plant is behind
Your plant is falling behind
Safety, quality and efficiency, looked at together.
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The team will not move
Your team will not execute
Decisions get made where the work is, or they do not get made.
Let's talk about what is going wrong.
A few sentences is enough. What is late, what is stuck, or which seat is empty.