Recently, I was working with a company with an on time delivery dilemma. They needed to increase their sales order outputs but also increase their rate of on time delivery.
Looking for ideas for improving delivery performance can sometimes be difficult. If it wasn’t, it would more common that everyone was delivering on time.
Can you remember the famous insanity quote?
“Insanity
OTIF (On Time In Full) is a pretty harsh metric. It measures the promises you make to your customers, rather than a percentage of achievement. If your customer orders 1000
Delays in business processes account for one of the biggest reasons that companies fail to consistently deliver on time, in my opinion. I've been to many businesses over the years
There are lots of ways that you can improve your On Time In Full (OTIF) delivery performance.
But these are all wasted effort if you don’t adequately focus your attention.
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I have launched my first online course at our sister site Continuous Improvement Made Easy.
The course is called The CI Primer and it marks the start for more content of
When it comes to generating improvement ideas, a fast option is to borrow inspiration.
There is a very quick and effective method which I will share with you here. I use
Over time, standards tends to degrade. Staff both accidentally and purposefully change what becomes the norm within a business. The same goes for discipline (as in, doing what is agreed
One of the most powerful on time delivery strategies is constant course correction.
I’m sure that you’ll know this as being the same approach that keeps an aeroplane on track. The
Have you been in improvement meetings where you have a topic to be discussed and somehow the meeting gets derailed?
You want to talk about an issue that needs to be