Category Archives: Supply Chains

Analytical Pirates

Posted on March 17, 2011 by | Leave a comment

The pirates are practicing operations management techniques! a queueing theory study of the piracy business.

Affinity-based routing and call center performance « The Operations Room

 

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auto industry headaches

Posted on February 24, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Allocation of new cars to dealers is a serious problem. Does it all boil down to slow production?

http://operationsroom.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/pulling-cars-and-allocations/#more-2126

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A new wrinkle for manufacturing

Posted on February 21, 2011 by | 1 comment

So this concept of making single products by building them up a layer at a time might become feasible.

Does this mean that a ship could start from China simply full of raw material, and actually make the individualized products en route, customized to the orders that are coming in?

It would kind of take the pain out of the long steaming times. You would not even have to have orders till you started out. There’s a bit of similarity with the frozen fish business, where the mix of packages can be determined as the fish is caught and processed on board.

Print me a Sheep: 3D printing « The Operations Room

 

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