Late Shipments
Symptoms (What do you see...)
- Missing inventory or can’t find to complete order.
- Staff- shortage (missing or not enough).
- Machines not working- or not sufficient.
- C/S not correctly using order dates.
- Delays in communicating new orders to production.
- Multiple steps requires to get shipping docs.
- Customer complaints.
- High expediting or shipping costs.
Causes (What you’ve got...)
- Inventory.
- Staff- low moral.
- MRP not used or manual.
- Machines old.
- Poor vendor performance.
- Dependent on off shore deliveries.
- Any upstream disruptions (systems, labor, material, equipment, supplier).
- Poor planning systems.
- Poorly implemented systems.
Solutions (What might work...)
- Implement or enforce systems.
- Process controls and analysis.
- Rood cause analysis.
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