A good measure for evaluation of operational productivity should avoid the two errors—false positives and false negatives. Let us check if the measure of profitability calculated as PBDIT as percent of sales meets the criteria. A growing company, improving profitability IPBDIT as percent of sales (PBDIT%)] over the years is often seen as an improvement in performance.

Find out how companies can solve the sales dilemma with ‘pull’ mode of sales

A lot of my friends in the distribution industry (and I have lots of them!) are quite intrigued by the fact I make a living out of implementing things as simple as “The Goal ” and “Its Not Luck ”.

Perishable goods industry is finding it increasingly difficult to live with the problem of low freshness of stocks at the point of sale. Find out how TOC can help?

Find out how companies can get the right material to the right place and ensure availability

Read about how to break the omnipresent month end skew and release capacity

In Distribution centric organizations, the level of Inventory is perceived to be a critical measure to understand the health of the system (inventory with respect to sale).

Find out how you can grow sales at double the market growth rate without any additional investment!

Read about how can companies convert slow-movers into a fast-mover

One challenge in the fashion industry is that forecasts often are wrong, especially at the individual item and retailer levels. Additionally, only about 15 percent of new designs turn out to be winners, selling out in about six to eight weeks.

A large portion of what drove us into the Great Recession is rooted in this dysfunctional pattern of distribution.

Read about how the results of a field research into retailer behaviour indicates contrary to the entrenched belief in the consumer good industry

Find out how stock replenishment time is the key to bringing down inventory in the entire distribution channel

Read to understand how textile companies can get an edge over competition keeping with the current trends in markets

In addition to the reduction in stress levels of people, productivity improved three times and reduced iterations by more than half

After the company adopted the TOC flow model for software development, productivity increased by a whopping 71%!

Implementing pull based supply chain solutions of TOC from the conventional push based supply chain

Textile companies can solve their problems with huge inventory and significant markdowns

Companies can continuously add product variety without creating chaos in their supply chain. Find out how

Find out why to be globally competitive, Indian textile exporters have no option but to make a huge paradigm change

Find out how an effective sampling process can help textile and garment companies to stay at par with the continuously evolving global trends

Read about how garment and textile manufacturing plants can not just reduce costs but also reduce lead time of supply

Find out how to increase bandwidth and bring transparency and agility in textile & garment companies.

Textile manufacturing practices in India are primarily geared towards leveraging economies of scale and an increasingly non-existent " low cost advantage". This makes it an enormous challenge for large Indian garment manufacturing firms to take up higher margin but lower volume fashion garment orders. Find out how this industry can change gears.

Find out how design departments can continuously increase output even when capacity is limited by adopting TOC

Find out how most projects are managed under several erroneous paradigms which lead to chronic delays

Read about how projects can be managed differently and more effectively using the Theory of Constraints approach

Large construction and erection projects seem to have a dubious record – most of them are delayed with significant cost overruns.

Most of the large infrastructure projects are actually many independent sub-projects, almost executed in parallel with integration at the end.

Do task deadlines really help control wastage of time? Find out.

Find out how TOC can help companies avoid havoc of delays in projects

Find out how companies can not only manage but also flourish in spite of the inherent challenges of project environments

Cherry-picking solution components and sequencing them incorrectly can lead to the failure of CCPM implementations

Project management literature talks about the need to measure and control all three variables of the project – Time, Quality, and Costs (or budget).

Find out how to deliver EPC projects on time even in an environment of high uncertainty

Financial accounting is a challenge in project organizations involved in delivering large construction projects for its clients.

Read this article to know how infrastructure companies can manage a quick post-lockdown transition and revival, in spite of the current working capital woes

Is a win-win solution possible for this ubiquitous tug of war over “margins” between brands and their retailers?

Find out a highly cost effective solution to reaching out to even the smallest of retailer point with a single tier distribution network

A replenishment based distribution system can help consumer good companies protect their traditional channel from being decimated by e-commerce.

Find out how brands and retailers can evolve themselves by using TOC while addressing the needs of customers

Pharmaceutical plants can discover hidden capacity, significantly increase output and respond quickly to market demand. Find out how.

A study was conducted to understand the impact of absence of wholesaling on market availability of FMCG during and immediately after the complete lockdown. The results are surprising but conclusive.

Companies who sell through retailers and depend on salespeople for order collection are facing unprecedented challenges to manage sales in the current COVID environment. Is there a way out?

Find out how consumer goods companies can build immunity with six levels of supply chain flexibility.

The actions of the OEMs have cascading effects in the entire supply chain

Distribution companies have always been wary of wholesalers in their distribution chain.

Find out how companies can improve their productivity by using the flow techniques of TOC

Most business and supply chain strategies focus on reducing cost at each link in the chain, and thus they create adversarial relationships.

Maintaining liquidity is providing to be a major problem for the automotive industry but it can be tackled.