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Make To Stock Planning Process

Consultant

Release liner company

Design and implementation of a process for Make to Stock clients (as opposed to Make to Order clients) to liberate scarce production capacity and create commercial flexibility

  • Economic Production Quantity calculation to show potential trade-off between changeover costs and inventory costs

  • Safety stock parameters determined based on realistic process reliability:

    • Forecast accuracy

    • Production reliability

    • Customer and SKU segmentation

  • Decision making process (S&OE) introduced to enable agility and responsiveness towards all customers

  • Design of planning policies and Make to Order process to ensure an end-to-end solution

  • Liaison with the global supply chain team to enable a successful SAP-IBP implementation and the journey to Oliver Wight Class A