Manufacturing at Warp Speed: Optimizing Supply Chain Financial Performance

Front Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 14
Preface......Page 20
The Authors......Page 26
About APICS......Page 28
Introduction......Page 30
1.  Systems Thinking: The Foundation......Page 42
2.  Principles and Tools of the Theory of Constraints......Page 52
3.  Assessing System Success......Page 68
4.  Constraint Management Tools......Page 78
5.  How Work Flows through a Manufacturing Process......Page 88
6.  Applying Constraints Theory to Manufacturing Operations......Page 102
7.  Traditional Drum-Buffer-Rope......Page 128
8.  Traditional Buffer Management: The DBR Control Mechanism......Page 152
9.  Drum-Buffer-Rope (DBR) and Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP)......Page 166
10.  Simplified Drum-Buffer-Rope (S-DBR)......Page 178
11.  Controlling Uncertainty and Variation: The S-DBR Approach......Page 204
12.  Managing Excess Capacity......Page 238
13.  Throughput-Based Decision Support......Page 254
14.  Drum-Buffer-Rope (DBR) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)......Page 274
Appendix A: The Dice Game......Page 292
Appendix B: The Management Interactive Case Study Simulator (MICSS)......Page 306
Appendix C: Plant 120......Page 340
Appendix D: The ADV200 Company......Page 350
Bibliography......Page 360
Index......Page 362