Process View & Strategy Part 4- Some OM Tools and Techniques
2 Ardavan Asef-Vaziri August, 2013Process View & Operations Strategy Processing Time, Waiting Time; Long Waiting Line
3 Ardavan Asef-Vaziri August, 2013Process View & Operations Strategy Recent Trends Global Competition Global Market Global Suppliers Supply Chain Management Not from RM storage to FG warehouse, but from the original suppliers to final consumers Under separate ownerships Workers Involvement Workers are not costs, they are assets Total Quality Management Lean Manufacturing Inventory is waste Variability is evil
4 Ardavan Asef-Vaziri August, 2013Process View & Operations Strategy Inventory adversely affects all competing edges (P/Q/V/T) Has cost Physical carrying costs Financial costs Has risk of obsolescence Due to market changes Due to technology changes Leads to poor quality Feed back loop is long Hides problems Unreliable suppliers, machine breakdowns, long changeover times, too much scrap. Causes long flow time Lean Operations: The Real Cost of Inventory Customer Product Wait Product
5 Ardavan Asef-Vaziri August, 2013Process View & Operations Strategy Centralization; inventory and Capacity Centralization of stocks reduces inventory. Centralization of Servers reduces waiting line. Why doesn’t everybody do it? – Longer response time – Higher shipping cost – Less understanding of customer needs – Less understanding of cultural, linguistics, and regulatory barriers These disadvantages my reduce the demand.
6 Ardavan Asef-Vaziri August, 2013Process View & Operations Strategy Pareto phenomenon (ABC analysis) Classifying items, activities, or tasks according to some measure of importance and allocating efforts and resources accordingly A vital few things are important for reaching an objective or solving a problem. 80/20 rule – 80% of the problems are caused by 20% of the activities. Recognition of Priorities.
7 Ardavan Asef-Vaziri August, 2013Process View & Operations Strategy Models -Representations A model is an abstraction of reality Narrative Tabular Schematic (Some times Physical) Mathematical Linear programming Transportation model Inventory models Waiting line models Statistical models Count what is countable. Measure what is measurable. What is not measurable, make it measurable. Galileo Galilei,
8 Ardavan Asef-Vaziri August, 2013Process View & Operations Strategy Schematic Representation of the Process (Flow Charts) Raw Material Cook Finished Goods AssembleDeliver Customer places order Mc Donald's make-to-stock system (Prior to 1999). Points where processing times are large. Activities that contains material or capacity constraints. Points where there is a high degree of resource sharing. When the same resource is required to process a variety of products. Divergence points where common materials are transformed into different product streams. Convergence points where multiple materials must come together. Points of excessive variation.
9 Ardavan Asef-Vaziri August, 2013Process View & Operations Strategy Value Stream Mapping Points where processing times are large. Activities that contains material or capacity constraints. Points where there is a high degree of resource sharing. When the same resource is required to process a variety of products. Divergence points where common materials are transformed into different product streams. Convergence points where multiple materials must come together. Points of excessive variation.