Demand Driven Performance

Learn how to implement demand driven metrics for vast improvement in measuring performance. Demand Driven Performancedetails why the outdated forms of measurement are inappropriate for current circumstances and reveals an elegant set of global and local metrics to fit today's demand driven world. The book shows how to minimize the organizational and supply chain conflicts that impede flow, and eventually, corporate success. Metrics are used to create a benchmark for measuring improvement and to identify and focus on those improvements that are most needed, and that have the highest ROI. However, the world has fundamentally changed in terms of delivering value and driving strong financial performance and growth. The continued use of outdated metrics is driving companies in the wrong direction giving them false signals, putting their personnel into conflict at all levels of the organization, and also wreaking havoc in the supply chain. This book offers solutions to remedy these issues. Defines a new demand driven approach for measuring total organizational performance and the corresponding local metrics that integrate with those measures Advocates a systems approach to measuring improvement, and shows how conventional metrics are no longer appropriate Focuses on reliability, stability, speed/velocity, strategic contribution, local operating expense, and local improvement waste A case study demonstrates the processes in the book and provides you with the technology and tools needed to achieve a demand driven system

Ch 1. The Demand Driven World
Ch 2. The Foundation of Metrics
Ch 3. The Problem with Conventional Metrics
Ch 4. The Utilization and Efficiency Assumption
Ch 5. The Push and Promote Assumption
Ch 6. The Inventory is a Waste Assumption
Ch 7. The Due Date Assumption
Ch 8. Demand Driven Economic Model – What are the Right
Ch 9. Local Demand Driven Metrics
Ch 10. Feedback & Accountability
Ch 11. Macro Case Study
Ch 12. Sales and Operations Planning's Role and Integrating it into the Demand Driven Approach
Ch 13. The Keys to a Successful Demand Driven System