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Profitability percentage (%)
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.

The road less travelled
Find out how companies can solve the sales dilemma with ‘pull’ mode of sales

TOC replenishment in a wholesale- dominated market, an oxymoron?
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 ”.

Old is gold no more
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?

Managing distribution chain: Is there a better way than gazing the crystal ball?
Find out how companies can get the right material to the right place and ensure availability

Straightening the hockey stick in sales and distribution
Read about how to break the omnipresent month end skew and release capacity

From inventory turns to norm turns
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).

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

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

Build to buffer
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.

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

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

100% availability with less than half the inventory
Find out how stock replenishment time is the key to bringing down inventory in the entire distribution channel

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

Fleetguard Filters Pvt. Ltd. (NPD)
In addition to the reduction in stress levels of people, productivity improved three times and reduced iterations by more than half

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

Managing a Fashion Supply Chain
Implementing pull based supply chain solutions of TOC from the conventional push based supply chain

Think small, reap big
Textile companies can solve their problems with huge inventory and significant markdowns

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

Reclaiming global leadership in textile manufacturing: Challenges & solutions
Find out why to be globally competitive, Indian textile exporters have no option but to make a huge paradigm change

Weaving magic in textile sampling with Theory of Constraints
Find out how an effective sampling process can help textile and garment companies to stay at par with the continuously evolving global trends

A stitch in time: Cutting lead time and improving reliability of textile supply chains
Read about how garment and textile manufacturing plants can not just reduce costs but also reduce lead time of supply

Disentangling sales: Increasing sales productivity in textile companies
Find out how to increase bandwidth and bring transparency and agility in textile & garment companies.

Manufacturing strategy for fashion garments
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.

Stop digging if you are already in a hole!
Find out how design departments can continuously increase output even when capacity is limited by adopting TOC

Enabling resource productivity in project environments
Find out how most projects are managed under several erroneous paradigms which lead to chronic delays

Critical chain project management: doing more projects – faster!
Read about how projects can be managed differently and more effectively using the Theory of Constraints approach

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

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

Deadline culture – does it help?
Do task deadlines really help control wastage of time? Find out.

The curse of multi-project environments
Find out how TOC can help companies avoid havoc of delays in projects

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

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

What is more important in projects – time, cost or quality?
Project management literature talks about the need to measure and control all three variables of the project – Time, Quality, and Costs (or budget).

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

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

Bridging the pandemic chasm
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

The unresolved conflict: Modern retail vs. consumer goods companies
Is a win-win solution possible for this ubiquitous tug of war over “margins” between brands and their retailers?

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

Battle for India’s retail market: Who will rescue traditional stores from online retailers?
A replenishment based distribution system can help consumer good companies protect their traditional channel from being decimated by e-commerce.

Overcoming the threat of e-tailers
Find out how brands and retailers can evolve themselves by using TOC while addressing the needs of customers

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

Solar eclipse in sales & distribution
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.

Retail sales operations: Challenges in the current COVID environment
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?

Pandemic-resistant manufacturing and distribution
Find out how consumer goods companies can build immunity with six levels of supply chain flexibility.

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

The ‘Delhi effect’
Distribution companies have always been wary of wholesalers in their distribution chain.

The great Indian productivity myth
Find out how companies can improve their productivity by using the flow techniques of TOC

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

The liquidity crunch
Maintaining liquidity is providing to be a major problem for the automotive industry but it can be tackled.
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Vector Management Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
10th floor, Thane One, DIL Complex,
Ghodbunder Road, Majiwade,
Thane (West), Maharashtra - 400610, India.