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Stop the Insanity! Unplug Your Materials Resource Planning (MRP)

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Did you know that typical Materials Resource Planning (MRP) forecasts are less than 70% accurate, if you’re lucky? Combine that with the unknowns of inventory, supplier quantities, varying lead-times, usage and data entry errors, and you might be looking at less than 66% accuracy. Running a business with so much guesswork is expensive and exhausting, and we know what they say about doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results…

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In the Manufacturing and Supply Chain world, the unintended consequences of misusing Materials Resource Planning causes bloated inventories, excessive freight costs and yet suffers perpetual material shortages and backorders. Why? And what can you do?

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Jerry Wright, winner of the San Diego Business Management Consultant of the Year for 6 straight years, is coming to the cafe on Thursday, September 26 to give us a few key tips from his best-selling book, The Insanity Trap: What Your MRP Consultant Won’t Tell You. He’s got easy to implement Kanban and Demand-Driven MRP solutions that work every time without fail. Come to the cafe since your sanity may depend on it, and you could win a free book!

 

See you there!

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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

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Meet
Tracy O'Rourke

Two things about my work intrigue me. I love helping clients solve their culture puzzle. What’s working well? What’s not? What norms hold the current culture in place? How can we understand the root causes behind why the culture is the way it is? Then we work to build an intentional culture. 

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At the individual level, I love the “Aha” moment when people realize that this stuff works. I love it when they’re hungry to apply the concepts even more. These are my true rewards.  
 

Meet

Elisabeth Swan

I’m a translator. I love taking complicated topics and deciphering them, so they make sense to myself and everyone around me. I love collaborating with clients and colleagues to build a problem-solving culture together. I get a huge sense of satisfaction working with others to overcome seemingly intractable organizational barriers.

 

I get a kick out of sharing what I’ve learned so the people I work with don’t have to struggle quite so much for so long or at least not as much as I did. I love the moment when a student no longer needs me.

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“I haven’t failed. I just found 10,000 ways that didn’t work.” – Thomas Edison

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Solving problems is messy. Changing the culture takes time. Working remotely is still new. But it’s all a bit easier when you have someone to lean on. There's a place for everyone to gather! Come hang out at the Just-In-Time Cafe where problem solvers enjoy vital connections. Come find inspiration and learn from friends, experts and colleagues. 

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