ABSTRACT
Contents Safe Dates: Interfacing Sales and Production ...................................................... 40
Estimating Release Time Based on a Safe Date ............................................... 42 Quoted Lead Time and Safe Date ...................................................................43 Monitoring Capacity: Increase It or Not? ....................................................... 46 Primary Time Horizon ....................................................................................47 What Capacity Should Be Increased? ..............................................................48 Capacity Buffers .............................................................................................49 Performance Measures for Reliability ..............................................................51 Incorporating Financial Value into Performance Reliability .............................54 What Is the Value of an Order? .......................................................................55
Since the publication of Manufacturing at Warp Speed, S-DBR has matured significantly. In the latter part of the last chapter, we pointed out that some of the developments since the introduction of S-DBR have added significantly to its robustness. What follows is a deeper discussion of some important supporting elements of S-DBR, such as how to estimate safe delivery dates and how safe dates affect other measures. The better we schedule, organize, and synchronize based on realistic safe
