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Chain Reaction: How to manage product demand instability

Norman Wilson on 2020-11-26 Being part of a long supply chain can be fraught with difficulties – often thanks to product demand. As a cog in such a system, you may have experienced large peaks and troughs in manufacturing loads and inventories. This issue is known as the Forrester Effect. In 1961, Jay Forrester wrote an article about the Read More...

I’ve Got a Hole in my Bucket…

Steve Palmer on 2014-08-26 … a tale of demand and capacity. I have a hole in my bucket. This is quite deliberate. I use it to provide a steady stream of water into my water feature at home. I established this system as my water supply delivered too much water. A simple regulator valve, similar to that used in Read More...