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inventories or have met the criteria for one quarter and are accumu-
lating consecutive quarters of compliance in order to gain exemption
status. ere is some evidence of the use of bar coding, scanning,
and other electronic means of entering necessary transactions.
Stage 4: BOM, router, and cycle count accuracy are now measured
in defective parts per million units (DPMU) terms with a goal of
<200 DPMU. (Note: By traditional measures, accuracy must be
>99%, which is still 10,000 DPMU! My view is that this isn’t nearly
good enough.) e formal ECO process is part of the nancial fore-
cast for future periods. Hourly associates proactively use formal
systems data to drive corrective action and in ...