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As supply chain leaders continue to look to improve costs and agility in their operations and networks, there may be an untapped solution right under the surface of existing business practices: flow management.<\/span><\/p>\n

Flow management can unlock additional throughput and capacity in existing operations leading to capital expenditure avoidance, and decreased costs.<\/p>\n

In its simplest form, it\u2019s adopting a key notion in the theory of constraints \u2013 find the constraint, exploit it, and iterate.\"\"<\/p>\n

But flow management can have wide ranging impacts (and disruption) to other parts of the supply chain and business. As an example, many organisations have good metrics to measure, and reward productivity. Often these metrics reward \u201clocal\u201d behaviours which impact the overall flow in an operation. This can lead to increased WIP or, worse still, insufficient flow to exploit the constraints identified in an operation. Changing\u00a0or\u00a0enhancing these metrics to support flow management is not always an easy task.<\/p>\n

Crimson & Co encourages its clients to approach flow initiatives holistically including consideration for:<\/p>\n

People<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 reviewing organizational structure, decision making, and rewards to ensure alignment with the goals of end to end flow management.<\/p>\n

Planning<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 understanding seasonality is important, but so too is intra-week, intra-day and, sometimes, minute by minute demand signals to schedule and manage\u00a0flow. Developing an S&OP process is a good first step.<\/p>\n

Processes<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 developing insights into upstream and downstream supply chain activities, key functional areas, material handling and automation capabilities, and service level targets.<\/p>\n

Systems<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 ensuring platforms can support process changes and can provide the right level of data and reporting to manage flow initiatives.\u00a0There\u00a0are three considerations: business rules (WMS), floor execution (WES), automation controls (WCS). Changes, and testing in these areas are always time-sensitive in a \u201clive\u201d operation.<\/p>\n

Communications<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 reviewing current practices to ensure consistency, feedback loops are in place, and the right mechanisms and audiences are included in up and downstream communications. Change management practices are an important consideration too.<\/p>\n

Metrics<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 ensuring metrics are in place to measure the impact of flow management initiatives on capacity, throughput,\u00a0cycle time,\u00a0and productivity.<\/p>\n

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-Brad Grimsley, Executive Supply Chain Consultant, Crimson & Co North America<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":751,"template":"","categories":[],"region":[158,159,160,161,162,240],"class_list":["post-750","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAssessing flow management to increase capacity - Argon & Co<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/en\/news-insights\/articles\/assessing-flow-management-to-increase-capacity\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Assessing flow management to increase capacity - Argon & Co\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As supply chain leaders continue to look to improve costs and agility in their operations and networks, there may be an untapped solution right under the surface of existing business practices: flow management. 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