Lean Supply Chain Management Essentials

88 Lean suppLy ChaIn ManageMent essentIaLs

mostly on your own, which in many environments, where there are lots of end items

or variants, this is very difficult to manage effectively.

As computing power became cheaper, finite planning became popular, at least

within the higher-end systems. e biggest issue here was that all the variables could

not be configured and many companies that invested in these modules simply wasted

their money.

Another significant issue is that traditional capacity planning focuses only on the

machines, while in many environments the real constraint is the number of people and

their skill sets. is is especially true in high-mix environments, where there are often

more machines than people to run them. is people constra ...