Manufacturing lead time shortening and stabilisation by means of workload control: an action research and a new method

Perona, Marco; Saccani, Nicola; Bonetti, Stefano; Bacchetti, Andrea

doi:10.1080/09537287.2016.1166283

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“…The primary weakness cited is its subjectivity. In spite of this, the method has gained acceptance as a relevant SCM research method (e.g., Farooq & O'Brien, 2015;Gutierrez, Scavarda, Fiorencio & Martins, 2015;Perona, Saccani, Bonetti & Bacchetti, 2016;Waring & Alexander, 2015). We contend that the single respondent survey method should not be abandoned because of its limitations.…”

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Setting Standards for Single Respondent Survey Design

Montabon

Daugherty

Chen

2017

J Supply Chain Manag

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We propose that single respondent surveys continue to be a viable supply chain management research tool. However, necessary care must be taken in research design and implementation. Articles published in leading supply chain management journals in the past 10 years were reviewed to identify patterns and trends in the use of single respondent surveys. Based on that analysis, several recommendations such as using multimethod research design, careful informant selection, and better documentation are presented for survey researchers to ensure and enhance the validity of single respondent survey research.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Setting Standards for Single Respondent Survey Design

Montabon

Daugherty

Chen

2017

J Supply Chain Manag

116

112

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“…Capacity Dynamics and Operations Re-engineering are the most prevalent areas, with many papers in the former looking to establish WIP targets that then determine production plans (for example Yang, Fu and Yang 2007). The latter category focuses upon changing processes to improve performance measures linked to one of the three variables typically inventory (Johri 1991), throughput rate (Chakravorty and Hales 2016) or time (Perona et al 2016). It is also clear that the majority of papers are at the operations level.…”

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On the versatility of Little’s Law in operations management: a review and classification using vignettes

Potter

Towill

Gosling

2019

Production Planning & Control

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Despite Little's Law being considered as one of the 'laws' of operations management, evidence of its application in an empirical context is diverse and diffuse. Hence, this paper aims to identify, classify and consolidate published empirical applications of Little's Law in a systematic manner to better understand its versatility. This paper undertakes a systematic literature review of the databases of the five main publishers of operations management journals, plus snowball sampling for additional papers. A final sample of 128 empirical journal articles is identified and categorized. Tactical, medium-term decisions relating to capacity dynamics and operations re-engineering are the most popular categories. To give further insights into versatility, vignettes for each category are developed. The review and vignettes confirm Little's Law as a highly relevant paradigm to operations management decisions due to its empirical versatility across levels, sectors and time domains. The paper suggests four factors to underline the empirical versatility of Little's Law in operations management: applicability, utility, simplicity and visibility.

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“…The WLC or Load-Oriented Control aims at controlling the manufacturing workload controlling the inventory level [8]. Over time, the WLC balances the workload releases to and from the manufacturing system.…”

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“…Imbalances between RI and P modify the queue length and, consequently, the WIP. Finally, SS is the minimum level of WIP that, under a given confidence level, prevents the starvation produced by instantaneous differences between RI and P [8,12,13]. The calculation model is valid for an isolated work centre as well as for a complete production line [8], and it looks as follows: ∆T max -maximum time elapsed between the arrival of two successive orders.…”

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Lead-Time, Inventory, and Safety Stock Calculation in Job-Shop Manufacturing

Sellitto

2018

Acta Polytech

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The purpose of this article is to present a method for calculating the lead-time, the inventory, and the safety stock or buffer in job shop manufacturing, which are essentially stochastic variables. The research method is quantitative modelling. The theoretical foundation of the method relies on the techniques belonging to the WLC (workload control) body of knowledge on the manufacturing management. The study includes an application of the method in a manufacturing plant of the furniture industry, whose operation strategy requires high dependability. The company operates in a supply chain and must have high a reliability in deliveries. Adequate safety stocks, lead times, and inventory levels provide the protection against the lack of reliability in the deliveries. The inventory should remain within a certain range, being as small as possible to maintain low lead times, but not too small that it could provoke a starvation, configuring an optimization problem. The study offers guidelines for a complete application in industries. Further research shall include the influence of the variability of the lot size in the stochastic variables.

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Manufacturing lead time shortening and stabilisation by means of workload control: an action research and a new method

Cited by 17 publications

References 48 publications

Setting Standards for Single Respondent Survey Design

Setting Standards for Single Respondent Survey Design

On the versatility of Little’s Law in operations management: a review and classification using vignettes

Lead-Time, Inventory, and Safety Stock Calculation in Job-Shop Manufacturing

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