Posts by Terry

Many of my clients that are looking to make life changes require advise on making career changes or finding happiness in a current career. Our careers define us in many ways and we spend 8 hours a day working, so it’s essential that we find the very best way to spend our working lives. Do I have a great career? Yes I do, and I also have an excellent balance between work and my home life. After years of extensive research here are the...

A few areas I have experience with. Master Data – It all starts here. The Master data process must insure that data input is 100% accurate and efficient. Sales and Operations Planning Smoothing – The Sales plan will blow down to your demand affecting master scheduling, capacity, and subsequently MRP and Shop floor control. MRP Exception Message measurements – Exception messages indicate that there is an exception to...

Company’s resources must work towards the same goals. Once the Key Performance Indicators are in place, people throughout the company will share the same vision and have overlapping common goals. Executives must share their vision and expectations to all levels of the company. Because the supply chain is a set of subsequent processes it is absolutely essential that excellent communication information exchange be maintained to...

Companies are in business to make money and a profit. In order to do both, company executives must be able to define performance measurements and have clear performance indicators. Key Performance indicators in the Supply Chain include: Percentage of quality rejects. Forecast Bias Forecast Accuracy Total Inventory Level Inventory turns Inventory days of supply Production to schedule Delivery to schedule (procurement) Exception...

ERP (Enterprise resource planning) systems integrate and automate business practices including Finance, Sales, Operations, Warehouse and any other aspects of a company engaged in manufacturing products or services. SCM (Supply chain management) network includes MRP planning, sourcing, procurement, inventory, production, associated master data and all logistics management activities. The primary objective of supply chain management is...