The first 10 days of an interim plant mandate An interim Plant Manager inherits decisions before inheriting full context. Delivery promises, safety issues, workforce concerns and escalation requests do not pause for a handover. The first ten days should establish control of the operation, test the
Read MoreCalculate capacity for the mix you actually need to make A line that produced a certain number of units last month does not have a fixed monthly capacity. When the mix changes, the load on each work centre changes with it. A plan based on an
Read MoreSAP routing time versus shop-floor time A capacity plan can be mathematically correct and operationally wrong. If the routing time in SAP no longer describes the work being done, every downstream calculation inherits that error: available hours, required people, order dates and the supposed bottleneck. For
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