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1. 1. Contact FlowVision — Lean Flow Consulting, Training, and Workshops

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   Published on: 1/2/2008   Last Visited: 1/2/2008

   Gerson "Gary" Cortes Direct Line 561.301.8740
   
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2. 2. www.flowvision.com

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   To register for the workshop please contact Gary Cortés at 561.301.8740 or e-mail: Cortes@flowvision.com
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   Gary is a partner in FlowVision, of Dillon, Colorado, a consultancy that works with major firms such as Cisco Systems, John Deere and Ingersoll Rand.Gary has found that floriculture is very labor intensive.But at the same time, he doesn't think we are unique or special, we are nothing more than "less-than-optimized factories."

3. 3. Lean Supply Chain News Update: May 2006

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   Published on: 5/1/2006   Last Visited: 4/30/2008

   "The trouble with building to forecast is that the forecast is never accurate for long," states Gary Cortes, co-founder of FlowVision, a Lean Manufacturing consultancy based in Dillon, Colo. "The $13 billion write-off happened because there was a complete disconnect between the OEMs, their contract manufacturers (CMs) and the component suppliers," he says.
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   As long as companies continue to build to forecast using MRP II push-production methods, another inventory disaster is just a matter of time, says Cortes.
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   Extended Lean makes the supply chain responsive by using a new technique known as Statistical Kanban, which was developed by Gary Cortes and his colleagues at FlowVision.How does it work?
   
   The Lowdown on Statistical Kanban
   
   "Statistical Kanban enables manufacturers to anticipate fluctuations in demand and meet virtually any guaranteed service level that a customer requires," says Cortes."Let's say we have to carry some level of finished goods inventory to guarantee a specific level of service required by an OEM customer.This is inventory that the OEM has ordered and agreed to purchase.We can statistically determine the ideal level of inventory that is needed at each stage of the supply chain based on historical usage patterns and trends," says Cortes.
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   "In order to achieve that level of service, we need to have a certain amount of material in the pipeline," explains Cortes.
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   Says Cortes, "We still use forecasts to tell us where we think we're going, and we use MRP to establish our lead-time offset, so we know how long it will take to order, receive, build and ship a product, but we are not going to order or build anything unless the customer actually buys a product.