Manufacturing, Operations Management, Inventory and Production Control

This navigation page is my attempt to organize my business articles by topic. I am interested in reading your comments and  suggestions on what you would like to see more of and additional topics.


Cycle Counting

• Cycle Counting Cut-off Control
• Is Your Business Ready for Cycle Counting

Inventory Control

• ABC Inventory Control
• Backflushing Inventory
• Inventory Reduction Strategies

Lean Manufacturing

• 5S
• 5S Overview - Sort, Set in Order, Sweep, Standardize, Sustain
• 5S for the Home Office
• Kanban
• Beginning a Kanban Production Manufacturing Approach
• Improve Your Kanban System
• Poke-yoke
• Poke-yoke
• SMED
• SMED - Single Minute Exchange of Dies
• Design of Experiments
• Design of Experiments

Logistics

• Cross-docking

Manufacturing

• Business Process Mapping
• Business Process Mapping Basics
• Business Process Mapping - Graphic Standards
• Business Process Mapping - Visual Presentation Best Practices
• EOQ
• The Story of EOQ - Part One Carrying Cost
• The Story of EOQ - Part Two Ordering Cost
• The Story of EOQ - Part Three Total Cost, Assumptions, Cautions and History
• General Manufacturing Topics
• A Case for Rack Location Bin Maps
• Are Intelligent Part Numbers a Dumb Idea?
• Centralized Versus Decentralized -- Anything
• Effectivity Dates
• Expediting Strategies
• Five Manufacturing Environments
• Group Technology - Applications Beyond Lean
• Manufacturing Capacity Management Basics
• PDCA Cycle
• Sawtooth Inventory Diagrams Explained
• SWOT Analysis for Organzational Improvement
• The Five Elements of Lead-time
• The Importance of Bill of Material Accuracy
• "Where Used" or "Pegging"
• MRP
• Making Material Requirements Planning Work
• Using MRP in an ETO Environment
• Production Planning
• Independent or Dependent Demand Inventory
• Production Plan Strategy - Chase Production 
• Production Plan Strategy - Level Production
• Production Plan Strategy - Hybrid Production
• Creating a Level Production Plan

Organization Structure

• Centralized or Decentralized Anything

Professionial Certification

• APICS CPIM Certification Preparation
• Create a Professional Certification Plan

Project Management

• Gantt Chart Basics

Quality

• The Four Costs of Quality

Scheduling

• Forward and Backwards Scheduling
• Infinite and Finite Loading and Capacity Concepts
• What is so Critical about Criticial Ratio?

Theorgy Of Contraints

• Bottleneck Management
• Drum-Buffer-Rope

Thanks for reading.

Garrison