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Make to availability and beyond: Using market buffers and / or capacity buffers to enable both growth and stability
CourseMTA is a commitment to maintain availability at a warehouse for immediate delivery, unlike MTS (no firm commitment). It's compared to MTS and MTO, focusing on market/capacity buffers, protection types, and load management (planned load < 80%).
$19
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Dealing with seasonality in distribution environments
CoursePresentation on four seasonality types, focusing on sharp demand changes. It compares Dynamic Buffer Management (DBM) and traditional forecasting, noting DBM's slow response to sharp demand changes. Steps for managing these changes are provided.
$19
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A value creation approach to project management: Doing much more with much less
CourseThe presentation on value creation beyond critical chain notes that reducing time to market or eliminating features can significantly increase firm value. Over 70% of development is wasted. Six value drivers for project management are listed.
$19
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The cash machine
CourseThis presentation outlines sales management roles, dispels the belief that a good salesman equals a good sales manager, and introduces the systematic TOC approach to the sales process, focusing on shortening the sales cycle.
$19
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Decision making in TOC implementations using decision analysis
CourseThis presentation covers large-scale decision-making under uncertainty (TOC Step 4 elevate types). Examples from various industries illustrate organizational and analytical complexity, identifying six types of elevation opportunities.
$19
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TOC & traditional IT systems: Integration & adaption
CourseTOC objectives: effective operations synchronized with sales and IT. Large-scale manual operations are impossible, necessitating IT solutions like building or modifying software for support.
$19