We miss our delivery dates because suppliers can react quickly enough and sales forecasts are unreliable. How can the MAS help us?
There are often improvements that can be made to your internal manufacturing operation to assist your suppliers and to ensure the sales forecast you are working to is more reliable. By making improvements to your manufacturing lead-time – i.e. by reducing delays and other non-value adding activities from your process – you will be able to provide more reliable delivery dates to your customers and will be working to more accurate short-term forecasts. By making smaller batch sizes more cost effective – i.e. by reducing changeover times – you can assist suppliers in responding to your changing needs. Good communication between sales, planning, production and dispatch is essential – often days can be lost in the communication process alone. Mapping this process has proven to be extremely beneficial and enlightening for those involved. Supplier monitoring and development is crucial. This is often an area that manufacturing businesses overlook. The MAS can assist you in making improvements
