1st Edition
3c A Proven Alternative to MRPII for Optimizing Supply Chain Performance
Lack of materials or goods to satisfy customer orders under current market conditions represents an extremely costly and important problem facing businesses today. This is a problem that companies have spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to solve. This book introduces a new theory, 3C, which will solve these problems.
The authors, experts from Lucent Technologies, discuss in detail the relationship between the 3Cs - capacity, commonality, and consumption - and how this relationship can revolutionize your business. You will learn how to: reduce overhead expense and improve shipping performance by using the business capacity as the basis for materials planning; reduce investments in inventory by using the commonality of components; obtain dramatic improvements in the lead time of customer orders by using the actual consumption of materials instead of inaccurate sales forecasts as the basis for purchasing.
The new and exciting techniques based on 3C generate immediate business benefits, for example: executing the purchasing function with a new criteria and formulae that can eliminate material shortages and significantly improve shipping performance, sales volumes, operating expense and company image.
3C-A Proven Alternative to MRPII for Optimizing Supply Chain Performance gives you the knowledge and practical guidelines to better manage end-to-end Supply Chains and eliminate the expensive and annoying problem of material shortages that most businesses suffer.
Features
An Unsatisfied Need
Requirements
The 3C Solution
Supply Chains
Supply Chains Under 3C
Aunt Anita Explaining 3C
The Puzzle Example
The 3C Approach
MRP II Approach
Synchronized MRP Approach
Comparing Performances
Is 3C Always Better Than MRP?
The Commonality Index (CIND)
The Comfort Example
Summary of Sensitivity Analysis
The 3C Path
Background
3C Results
Success Stories
What's Next for 3C
The MRP Path
Background
MRP Results
The Bigger Picture
Full Enterprise Models
Making the Decision
Biography
F Xavier Gurrola-Gal, Miguel Fernandez-Ranada; Enrique Lopez-Tello