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Theory of Constraints Supply Chain Thinking
Posted by: | CommentsThis a transcription of the Business901 podcast that featured Amir Schragenheim, President of Inherent Simplicity, a software firm specializing in TOC software for Production & Distribution environments. Inherent Simplicity is the exclusive software supplier for Production & Distribution software to Goldratt Consulting, Eli Goldratt’s consulting firm, in their Viable Vision strategic projects.
Implementing the TOC Supply Chain Solution
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Amir’s Website: Inherent Simplicity
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Uncertainy in your Decision Making
Posted by: | CommentsI had great pleasure having Eli Schragenheim on the Business901 Podcast. Eli has been part of the Theory of Constraints movement practically from the beginning. He started working with Dr. Goldratt as a programmer to program a game for adults that would teach them how to think over 25 years ago. During the podcast we dove into the subject of Uncertainy! A great discussion, that affects our everyday life and how it relates to forecasting and even our intuition.
From the Podcast: We cannot really predict the future. We can predict some reasonable range of the future needed to make a decision. This is hard for forecasting. Forecasting is an unbelievably important tool for managers, but again they need to understand what does it mean and what does it contain and how wrong could it be.
In the past 25 years, Eli Schragenheim has taught, spoken at conferences, and consulted in more than 15 countries, including the United States, Canada, India, China, and Japan. He has also developed software simulation tools especially designed to experience the thinking of TOC, and consultant with several application software companies to develop the right TOC functionality in their own packages. Mr. Schragenheim was a partner in the A. Y. Goldratt Institute and is now a Director of Goldratt schools.
He is the author of Management Dilemmas: The Theory of Constraints Approach to Problem Identification and Solutions. He recently collaborated with William Detmer and Wayne Patterson on the book Supply Chain Management at Warp Speed: Integrating the System from End to End
You can contact Eli Schrangenheim through his e-mail @ elyakim@netvision.net.il
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In a Supply Chain, Where is more important than How Much!
Posted by: | CommentsCarol Ptak is first and foremost a thought leader. You will find in the podcast that Carol has an extensive background in Supply Chain and Management. It was one of my most informative podcasts full of fresh ideas, examples and usable material. Even though it centered around Supply Chain most of the principles can easily be applied in other areas such as operations and even marketing. 
In her other life, she is a Visiting Professor and Executive in residence at Pacific Lutheran University, a farmer and dog trainer. This is after years of experience in management at PeopleSoft and IBM Corp as well as many years of consulting expertise. At PeopleSoft, she developed the concept of Demand Driven Manufacturing, as an overall product and marketing strategy to align product development, market awareness, and demand generation. Her innovative approach is credited with significantly improving the companies position in the manufacturing industry software market and earned her national recognition in publications such as CFO Magazine and the New York Times.
Our discussion centered around Actively Synchronized Replenishment(ASR) a new way of thinking for supplying chain management. It provides an alternative demand driven approach for planning and controlling mature overflow and contrasted to the poor business results embedded in most traditional material requirements planning systems.
She co-authored a chapter with Chad Smith in the Theory of Constraints Handbook
You can also purchase just this chapter: Integrated Supply Chain (Chapter 12 of Theory of Constraints Handbook)
ASR Website: http://beyondMRP.com
P.S. You can learn a lot about Carol by the quote that is included at the bottom of her emails: "Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal" Friedrich Nietzsche
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