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Revolutionizing supply chain management the theory of constraints way: a case study
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TOC's holistic approach helped the company to double its profits and improve its cash position during the Great Recession and help the company achieve a significant reduction in its finished goods, raw material and work-in-process inventories at various levels across the supply chain.Abstract:
This research describes in detail an application of theory of constraints (TOC) and its resulting benefits on the supply chain performance of India's largest lock manufacturing company over a perio...read more
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Shifting bottleneck-driven TOCh for solving product mix problems
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Communicating for change: a systems thinking approach
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TL;DR: The cause-and-effect based method presented in this work is generic enough and can be adopted for getting a buy-in in a variety of change management contexts.
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Pulling the distribution in supply chains: simulation and analysis of Dynamic Buffer Management approach
TL;DR: Inventory management in supply chains faces several typical problems, such as low turnover, high inventory investments, lost sales due to a stockout of certain items and surpluses of these same items as mentioned in this paper.
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Theory of constraints case study in the make-to-order environment
TL;DR: The protective capacity of non-bottleneck resources is found to the key factor when subordinating the MTO system to a bottleneck (BN), which coincides with one of the two key factors defined by the literature, namely protective capacity and protective inventory.
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Understanding the Constraints on Success in Brazilian Amazon Production Chains
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Issues in Supply Chain Management
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a framework for supply chain management as well as questions for how it might be implemented and questions for future research, and case studies conducted at several companies and involving multiple members of supply chains.
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Supply Chain Management: Implementation Issues and Research Opportunities
TL;DR: In 1998, the Council of Logistics Management modified its definition of logistics to indicate that logistics is a subset of supply chain management and that the two terms are not synonymous as discussed by the authors.
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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
Eliyahu M. Goldratt,Jeff Cox +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, Rogo, a plant manager, must improve his factory's efficiency or face its closing in just three months, despite the fictional setting, Goldratt's novel has become a classic business and management text.
Effective Supply Chain Management
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies, and provide strategic insights and practical thinking that have influenced some of the world's leading organizations.
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