Almost every shop I have visited has, or is thinking about, initiating a “vendor managed inventory” program of some kind. The pressure to do this is especially strong when there is a big push to improve working capital positions and increase inventory turns. And, to be honest, the way traditional accounting counts inventory turns, getting [...]
Gipsie Ranney is a consultant with The Deming Cooperative. A white paper she recently wrote, contrasting NUMMI with The Big Three, has been circulating by email. I requested, and received, her permission to publish it here. Remembering NUMMI Gipsie B. Ranney January, 2009 The discussions of a bailout for the U.S. owned auto industry – [...]
(Links updated Feb 24, 2010) Robert Johnston, now at the University of Melbourne holding the John Skarkey Chair of Information Systems and Organisation at the UCD School of Business in Ireland, did his PhD work at Monash University in Australia. His dissertation, “ The Problem With Planning” presents a thought provoking thesis. – Early robotics [...]