What can manufacturers learn from Amazon?
The answer is: Companies that can ship the quickest and deliver product “on time” will win the business. If you miss your first promise date you better make sure you don’t miss the second. In addition, you need to notify the customer before you miss the date not after. Once the customer loses confidence in […]
Production Scheduling: Art or Science?
Does production scheduling require scientific and creative decision-making skills? From the outside looking in, it may appear that production scheduling is more art that science. Ask an experienced scheduler a sequencing question, and they will tell you why Job B should run before Job A with high confidence. In reality, production scheduling involves complex mathematical […]