Demand Driven Institute

Dedicated Demand Driven MRP Webinar

Traditional material planning and control system (ERP/MRP and distribution requirements planning systems) are systems in which detailed forecasts are used to procure needed materials and push manufacturing orders through the production and distribution system to the point of consumption.  This system is typically called “Push and Promote.”  These legacy rules and systems are causing enormous amounts of friction and compromises within and between manufacturers in today’s more complex and volatile supply chains.

Your executive and planning team can be introduced to the game-changing concepts of Demand Driven MRP by Carol Ptak and Chad Smith, the authors of Orlicky’s Material Requirements Planning, Third Revised Edition.  This 90 minute presentation will take your team through:

• The shortcomings of traditional MRP/DRP tactics that are embedded in most modern ERP packages
• The global changes that have exposed these shortcomings
• The typical compromises associated with these shortcomings
• The five components of DDMRP:
  1. Strategic inventory positioning
  2. Buffer profiles and level determination
  3. Dynamic buffers
  4. Demand driven planning
  5. Highly visible and collaborative execution.

A Question and Answer period will allow your team to ask specific questions about your environment.  The Dedicated Demand Driven MRP Webinar is the perfect pre-cursor for a Demand Driven Design Session.

Fee: $1,500
For more information and/or to schedule a Dedicated Demand Driven MRP Webinar contact:
info@demanddriveninstitute.com

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Demand Driven MRP Workshop

Carol Ptak and Chad Smith, authors of Orlicky’s Material Requirements Planning, Third Revised Edition, (McGraw-Hill, 2011) will offer an in-depth exploration of the logic behind the innovative and groundbreaking multi-echelon inventory and materials planning and execution method known as Demand Driven MRP.

The workshop will describe and clarify the poor business results embedded in most of today’s demand and supply planning systems; discusses the core problems causing the results; presents and details an alternative demand driven structure for planning and controlling materials flow; and presents initial results from actual implementations. This new solution helps companies tackle three pervasive 21st Century problems: unacceptable inventory performance; unacceptable service level performance; and high related expenses and waste.

The workshop is divided into two sections.
Section 1, MRP in the Modern World, answers four critical questions:

1. Is MRP still relevant?
2. Is MRP failing because it is flawed or poorly implemented?
3. Why do pull oriented philosophies like Lean come into conflict with MRP?
4. Why has MRP failed to significantly evolve over the last 30 years?

Section 2, Demand Driven MRP details the blueprint for the evolution of MRP in the modern world.  The five critical components of DDMRP will be detailed:

1. Inventory Positioning
2. Buffer Profiles and Level Determination
3. Dynamic Buffers
4. Demand Driven Planning
5. Highly Visible and Collaborative Execution

Open sessions are held periodically around the world.  Check the events calendar for the next event.

If you are interested in having Demand Driven MRP Workshop at your company please contact: info@demanddriveninstitute.com

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The Strategic Solutions Program

The Demand Driven Institute offers a unique and comprehensive strategic analysis and problem solving program for executives and/or their direct reports.  Through a blend of instructive formats participants learn a repeatable strategic problem solving process, apply that process to a defined topic within their organization and learn and internalize the building blocks of constraints management principles for industry.

Install Thoughtware into your management system

In order to have long term success in an increasingly competitive environment, management cannot afford to wait for opportunities to present themselves.  Organizations must ensure the ability to develop long-term and robust solutions in order to address today’s challenges and tomorrow’s changes.

So, how effective is your management team in solving complex problems?

Many organizations and managers fight fires on a daily basis, waging the same battles over and over again.  Intuitively, we know that as long as we continue to observe the same types of symptoms, we are not addressing the real underlying problem.  So, how do we find the real problem?

In an organization or functional area that continues to struggle with the same types of challenges or symptoms there are often underlying and unresolved dilemmas that tug people in at least two directions at once.  These dilemmas often result in a constant and unsatisfactory set of compromises at all levels producing consistently poor or underwhelming results.

A breakthrough solution allows an organization or an individual to break the underlying dilemmas and remove their related symptoms.  It is a solution that is elegant; it is both simple and extremely significant.  The simplicity comes from the fact that we are attacking the symptoms at fewer points (through the underlying dilemmas) and the significance is defined by the knowledge of how the symptoms are connected to and dependent upon the dilemmas.  This allows a company to seize the inherent potential lying dormant in their system in a relatively short period of time for a relatively modest investment in time, energy and money.

But how can we can we equip people to uncover the right dilemmas and stop the “fire-fighting” and “fire-lighting” campaigns?  Furthermore, how do we come up with an effective solution to those dilemmas and learn how to drive it through the organization?  The Strategic Solutions Program effectively answers both of these questions.

About the Strategic Solutions Program

Define a Solution/Project for your company
Work through problem, solution, implementation plan and buy-in for a strategic level issue having a bottom line impact on your organization.  A subject matter is defined and relevant data is gathered about that subject matter in advance of the program.  The participant then learns and uses the above tool set in order to analyze the subject matter from problem definition through solution implementation and organizational buy-in.

Learn a repeatable process for strategic problem solving including:

• Current Reality Tree (CRT): Making the connections between organizational challenges that are potentially separated by function, location, etc.
• Core Problem / Core Conflict: Identifying and resolving an organizational problem that results in many symptomatic issues.
• Future Reality Tree (FRT): Defining and ensuring the solution will attain the necessary results.
• Negative Branch Reservations (NBR): Immunizing the solution from potentially disastrous side-effects.
• Prerequisite Tree (PRT):  Implementation planning.
• Buy-in: Gaining consensus when returning to the organization.

Achieve “Jonah” Certification

Successful completion of the Strategic Solutions Program means that the participant will be certified a Jonah from the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization (TOCICO).

Who should attend?
The SSP is intended for strategic level personnel and/or their direct reports.  Examples include organizational, divisional and functional leaders, individuals responsible for implementing and guiding major initiatives, and internal consultants and/or corporate change agents.

The Facilitator

The Strategic Solutions Program will is led by Chad Smith.  Chad has guided hundreds of executives and managers through the strategic thinking processes of TOC over a span of 15 years.  Chad is a Jonah’s Jonah as well as a certified expert in all applications of the Theory of Constraints by the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization (TOCICO).  Additionally, Chad is an internationally recognized expert in demand driven planning and execution systems.  He is currently co-authoring the third revised edition of Orlicky’s Material Requirements Planning.

For more information about the Strategic Solutions Program contact Chad at: csmith@demanddriveninstitute.com

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