The Strategic Importance of Effective Capacity Management
The adage goes that effective (and efficient) supply chain management extends from “a supplier’s supplier to a customer’s customers.”
Manufacturers are all rushing to “win” the race to electric automobiles. With this comes literally thousands of new and unique parts, of which suppliers may not have the production and/or engineering capacity to meet.
According to Opsahl, “The capacity of a supplier to launch new stuff…isn’t so much dependent on machine tools and production capacity as it is on human […]