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Chain Reaction: How to manage product demand instability

Wilson Lee on 2021-03-21 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 the Covid-19 era has happened in microchips in Read More...

Take Time to Take Stock

Steve Palmer on 2020-10-07 Take time to take stock. There are many symptoms of a stock management process which is operating below par. Common ones include: Wasted labour searching for parts not located where they should be Inventory which has been gathering dust for several years and is consuming valuable space Accounting headaches as computerised records bear no resemblance to reality A backlog of unprocessed goods-in receipts Read More...

Expanding Stock & Space and Parkinson’s Law

Wilson Lee on 2019-11-04 There is a corollary to Parkinson’s Law… It is, ‘the stock expands to fill the space available’. There is a danger if you have access to funds and plenty of space to fill them with stock. This is fine if there is no other suitable investment for your cash and you are sure it will 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...