Operations
The second supplier is approved. They’ve never run the job.
Dual sourcing that exists in the procurement file and nowhere else tends to fail at exactly the moment it was created for.
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Operations
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Utilisation hit 92%. That’s when the lead time doubled.
Pushing a delivery team from 80% to 92% busy looks like free capacity on the P&L. Queueing behaviour says it…
Operations
The offer became a product. The delivery stayed a favour.
Packaging a service is a marketing decision that only pays off if delivery changes too, and delivery is where the…
Operations
Your risk register scores likelihood and impact. The one that hurts you will be scored on speed.
Most registers rank risks on two axes and miss the one that decides the damage: how long a problem runs…
Operations
The hire started in March. The capacity arrived in October.
Most hiring plans quietly assume a new person is useful from day one, and the gap between start date and…
Operations
Every function hit its target. The company missed.
When every departmental number is green and the consolidated result isn't, the fault is rarely effort: it's usually in how…
Operations
The lead time averages four weeks. Your customer plans for seven.
Hitting your average delivery time can still leave customers treating you as unreliable, and quietly pricing that unreliability into what…
Operations
Onboarding is free. It’s the reason delivery is at capacity.
The cost of getting a new customer working is paid by the delivery team, which is why it never appears…
Operations
Stock turns six times a year. A third of the cash turns once.
Aggregate inventory turnover is an average of two very different businesses, and the half that looks healthy is usually the…
Operations
The price held for three years. The specification didn’t.
Supplier price stability is the easiest number in procurement to hold, and the easiest place to hide a cost increase…
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