Improving Operations and Quoting Accurate Lead Times in a Laminate Plant

Sridhar Tayur
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Sridhar Tayur: Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213

Interfaces, 2000, vol. 30, issue 5, 1-15

Abstract: The important requirement of quoting short and accurate lead times to customers in industrial supply chains is a difficult challenge as it requires coordination between purchasing, order-entry, scheduling and inventory-control groups. We meet this challenge at a laminate plant where the customer demands (in timing and quantity) are variable, the production processes have uncertain yield, the variety of products is high, and manufacturing involves significant switch-over costs and times between products—through the use of inventory management with cyclic scheduling, along with many concurrent improvements in supplier management, customer relations, product design, and quality.

Keywords: INVENTORY-PRODUCTION—APPLICATIONS; INDUSTRIES—COMPUTER-ELECTRONIC (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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