Supercharged Supply Chains

CHAPTER 19Implementation: Where to Start

The easy answer is, everywhere. This is not as absurd as it might sound. In most cases the resources to create the fundamentals of Business Excellence Planning are different by department and even within a department, so there would not be a drain on any specific resource. The people who would work on achieving inventory accuracy are different from those who would work on achieving accuracy of Bills of material (BOMs), Routings, MRP item masters, work location item masters, Demand Planning, Master Scheduling, IBP, Material Requirements Planning, Product Planning, and so forth. So many of these can progress concurrently; for all the required elements, see Figure 19.1. To guide implementation and creation of the required structured planning, Oliver Wight developed, over the past 50 years, the Proven Path, a transformation process described later in this chapter.

FIGURE 19.1 Business Excellence Planning

Integration of People, Processes, and Tools

The success of Business Excellence Planning depends on people having the right behaviors, business processes, and tools integrated to support the new ways of working. Figure 19.2 shows this integration with their overlap, the amount of integration, increasing as maturity develops. Focusing on any one and ignoring the others is a guaranteed roadmap to failure. Over the years an enormous amount ...