Constant Customer Shortages
Symptoms (What do you see…)
- Expediting.
- Failure to meet customers demand.
- Back orders.
- Missed Customer Deliveries.
- Can’t deliver on time.
Causes (What you’ve got…)
- Mis-marked, mis-located, or mis-appropriated inventory.
- Unreliable or poor quality vendor.
- Excessive or inappropriate stocking locations.
- Over committing.
- Poor planning (mis-match between lead times and customer; customer wants it faster than you can make it.)
- Production disruptions.
Solutions (What might work…)
- Improve physical controls.
- Check parts quality at receipt or at vendor.
- Improve communications.
- Improve planning and control systems.
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