<p>"Even the best companies tend to be reactive because of poor scheduling. Often their employees prefer being reactive because they are so used to operating in this mode. The shoot-from-the-hip approach is very common in American culture. The West was won with a ‘six-shooter’and many shop floor managers continue to function in the shoot-from-the-hip mode. While there are some conditions that might benefit from the shoot-from-the-hip philosophy, modern competitive manufacturing is not one of them." —from Finite Capacity Scheduling In this groundbreaking book, internationally recognized experts explain why obsolete scheduling methodologies may be preventing your company from achieving competitive levels of productivity, and how today’s powerful new finite capacity scheduling (FCS) technologies can transform it into a world-class competitor. The first comprehensive guide to understanding, choosing, implementing, and managing FCS technologies, Finite Capacity Scheduling: </p>
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<li>Exposes the problems inherent to infinite capacity scheduling models</li> <li>Explains why FCS is the key to modern competitive manufacturing</li> <li>Shows how FCS maximizes resource use and cuts inventory costs</li> <li>Proves that FCS is a natural complement to MRP, ERP, TQM, and JIT</li> <li>Reviews current and emerging FCS technologies</li> <li>Offers guidelines for choosing the best FCS system for your company</li> <li>Describes how to integrate FCS seamlessly into your management structure</li> </ul>

Finite Capacity Scheduling: Management, Selection, and Implementation (Oliver Wight Manufacturing Series)

Business & Money

Plenert, Gerhard

Kirchmier, Bill

Management & Leadership

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

<p>Finite Capacity Scheduling: Optimizing a Constrained Supply Chain introduces the reader to a critical tool for driving enterprise and supply chain competitive excellence. It teaches the reader how to beat the competition by: · Reducing in-stock inventory and inventory cost · Reducing logistics costs · Increasing on time delivery which increases customer satisfaction · Reducing stock-outs · Improved Supply Chain and Enterprise scheduling and load balancing This book’s focus is on scheduling and coordinating demand for Material, Labor, Machine resources and balancing them with available Capacity. Finite Capacity Scheduling identifies an executable balance between resource demand and resource availability; all while coordinating shipments to Supply Chain management systems. FCS schedules everything from HMLV systems and components to HVLM production items; all this while interfacing with enterprise-wide ERP systems. This book: · Shows how FCS optimizes resource scheduling options; including material, equipment, personnel, tools, etc.; anything that creates a constraint on throughput. · Describes how to seamlessly integrate FCS and ERP in a single database · Explains how FCS effectively coordinates material and capacity resources · Shows how FCS delivers feasible Finite Scheduling for Material and Capacity · Schedules work based on actual material and capacity availability · Supports interfacing ERP production with Supply Chain Management systems. · Explains how and why FCS offers feasibility and flexibility The book is a comprehensive guide to understanding, implementing and managing material and capacity resources for the full Supply Chain Management Spectrum of production scheduling applications including complex High Mix Low Volume (HMLV) and simplistic High Volume Low Mix (HVLM) production environments.</p>

Finite Capacity Scheduling: Optimizing a Constrained Supply Chain

Plenert PhD, Gerhard

Quinn, Gregory

IPPSA

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