TY - GEN
T1 - Reducing finished cardboard carton inventory
T2 - 4th North American IEOM Conference. IEOM 2019
AU - Schroeder, Gabriel
AU - Treviño, Karen
AU - Villarreal, Bernardo
PY - 2019/10/1
Y1 - 2019/10/1
N2 - This work describes a case study of aMexican company that manufactures a numerous number of cardboard carton box sku´s. The firm has the strategy of producing to order 26% of its sales and the rest is fabricated to stock. The main problem that requires the attention of upper management corresponds to the high level of finished goods inventory maintained by the company. After an exhaustive stage of analysis, it was found that the main aspects that contribute to the huge inventory levels are; poor handling of demand forecasting; deficient coordination with the area of production planning and control and; customer service management. The paper describes in a detailed basis the initiatives designed to improve the root causes. Also, it provides a summary of the results obtained in pilot testing.
AB - This work describes a case study of aMexican company that manufactures a numerous number of cardboard carton box sku´s. The firm has the strategy of producing to order 26% of its sales and the rest is fabricated to stock. The main problem that requires the attention of upper management corresponds to the high level of finished goods inventory maintained by the company. After an exhaustive stage of analysis, it was found that the main aspects that contribute to the huge inventory levels are; poor handling of demand forecasting; deficient coordination with the area of production planning and control and; customer service management. The paper describes in a detailed basis the initiatives designed to improve the root causes. Also, it provides a summary of the results obtained in pilot testing.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85079274498
SN - 9781532359507
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management
SP - 751
BT - 4th North American IEOM Conference. IEOM 2019
PB - IEOM Society
Y2 - 23 October 2019 through 25 October 2019
ER -