Chapter 29 Critical Success Factors
Scheduling Strategy Critical Success Factors
For any of these scheduling strategies, whether product wheels, rhythm wheels, RfS, or FSVV, to be sustained, there are three crucial business processes and capabilities that must be in place:
- Finished product and raw material inventories must be properly calculated and built to allow the business to reliably complete the planned sequence, considering the normal variability of demand, supplier delivery performance, and production reliability. For example, unless the Product Wheel sequence can be reliably completed most of the time, it’s not really a Product Wheel.
- Despite the best efforts to properly design inventories, there will ...
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