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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.
Fleetguard’s distribution strategy using the Theory of Constraints
To succeed in the aftermarket it was obvious that FFPL would need to have 100% availability of a wide range of their products
Auto supply chain in India – A mishmash of “Push” and “Pull” methods
Read more about creating fully pull-based supply chain systems based on Theory of Constraints in Indian auto companies.
An afterthought on the aftermarket
Find out how auto supply chains can ride industry waves easily and continue to grow
More is not merrier
Know more about how to escape from the chronic delays and poor output that NPD of automotive organizations find themselves in
Rally with your allies
Forging long-term relationships with vendors is crucial for supply chain excellence. Find out how?
Auto e-tailing: Mistakes & opportunities
Finding an eCommerce model that works for them is a top strategic issue for auto company CEOs…
Spare the trouble
Ensuring spares availability is naturally a major challenge due to the enormous variety of parts involved across the portfolio of the OEM’s vehicles.
De-stressing NPD
New Product development processes can be de-stressed to meet all stakeholder expectations in terms of cost and delivery deadlines
The Race from BS IV to BS VI: How to win by solving the woes in Auto R&D
Read to understand how R&D divisions can respond competently to sudden regulatory requirements like a quick conversion to BS VI
Shifting gears in auto spare parts business
The lockdown and the economic slowdown in the wake of nCovid-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on the auto spare parts industry. Find out how this sector can revive its operations.
Reliability of delivery: Brand positioning opportunity for custom manufacturing organizations
Find out how supply chains build on the principles of Theory of constraints can provide the competitive edge to stay ahead in the market
How bad are local efficiency measures?
Find out how manufacturing plants using TOC can maximize output by abolishing the concept of local efficiencies
Dealing with emperor’s new clothes
Find out how TOC can help plant managers maximize speed of order flow while improving capacity utilization
What is new in simplified DBR?
DBR was developed in the mid 80s as a relatively simple, yet effective, production planning methodology.
Planning improvement projects
Knowing WHAT TO improve is as important as knowing WHEN TO improve and WHAT NOT to improve!
Exploiting sales capacity
Find out how the salesmen can focus on selling and not waste time on sales support tasks!
Get more out of less
Read about how production skews can be broken to expose the hidden capacity in manufacturing plants
Standing on the shoulder of the giants
It is easy to trace the popularity of Lean production to Toyota’s success. Toyota’s success is undeniable.
Spares distribution- When the long tail wags the dog
Find out how to ensure availability of equipment spares without increasing inventory
The Equipment Enigma: Aligning NPD processes to deliver business growth
Find out how the Indian equipment manufacturing companies can align their R&D processes to grow consistently
Trident Group (Home Textiles)
A major manufacturer and exporter of textiles
Fleetguard Filters
The firm built a new plant in a rain ravaged location in eight months (industry standard lead-time of over 12-14 months)
Tata Metaliks
The blast furnace shut down was completed well within budget (87%) and in a record of 23 days
Tata Bluescope Steel Limited
Lead time of projects reduced by 25%; manufacturing output increased by 15%; engineering resources output increased by 30%
Bajaj Electricals Engineering And Projects Division
With the new paradigm of synchronized supply and execution management, the company now delivers most projects 3-4 months early
KEI Industries Ltd
The company used flow principles of TOC to seamlessly align purchase/material delivery to site requirements to speed up execution
A Major Vertically Integrated Linen Exporter
After adopting TOC "pull" manufacturing, this company was able to improve OTD to 95% from earlier 30%!
Raymond Luxury Cottons Ltd.
Within eight months of implementing TOC, production lead-time reduced by 25%; OTIF improved to 95%
Pratibha Syntex Ltd
This integrated textile company saw its OTIF increase to 90% and profits go up by 55% after adopting TOC
Liberty Retail Revolution Ltd
Within a year, the company improved the store inventory cover from 10 months to five months, while increasing sales by 30%
Landmark
The company put in place robust mechanisms to effectively manage its portfolio and its product mix in stores
JK Files And Tools
Using TOC solutions, JK tools increased output by 30% from existing capacity within six months of implementation
Godrej Interio- Service And Spares
Service levels improved (complaints reduced by 55%) by process improvement & without increasing the fixed cost
Godrej Interio-Home Kitchens
With implementation of TOC operations solutions, the ex-factory OTIF performance has gone up from around 50% to 98%
Parag Milk Foods Ltd.
They experienced a 56% increase in average sales per day and 200% jump in outlets billed after adopting TOC
Tata Radiators
The implementation of the TOC flow management solution in NPD has doubled the output rate of new products
Mahindra First Choice (Spares And Services)
Without any offering schemes or discounts, this young company increased average daily sales by 1275%
Mahindra First Choice Services
Within a year, turnaround time reduced to 58% and the revenue generated per work hour increased by 91%
Lucas Indian Service Ltd.
Same-day order fill rate of the firm improved from 50% to 80%; distributors’ sales grew by 45%
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10th floor, Thane One, DIL Complex,
Ghodbunder Road, Majiwada,
Thane (West), Maharashtra - 400610, India.