CUSTOMER ORIENTED LOGISTICS
- Continuous
Improvement
- Project Management
- Customer Service Focus
- AS-9000 Level Quality Management
- Customer Product Assembly
Part Design Support
PPM has effectively worked
to develop a number of logisitics solutions
and alternatives to assist OEM customers
in meeting their profitability and asset
utilization objectives. The following are
some implemented techniques.
Blanket orders
- PPM works with a number of customers
on the basis of annual or semi-annual
blanket orders, to provide the customer
the benefit of higher volume pricing,
while providing ppm with improved purchasing
and production flexibility
- Minimum inventories: the blanket order
approach, combined with jointly establishing
minimum inventory levels, enables ppm
to service the customer’s delivery
requirements, whether to stock, or to
“feed” the customer’s
manufacturing cells through kanban or
other production and inventory management
techniques, keeping customer’s inventory
to a minimum
- PPM operations management proactively
monitors and adjusts the customers’
inventory levels consistent with requirements
Providing subassemblies and assemblies
- Ppm works with customers to improve
the efficiency of their material management
activities by more frequently providing
subassemblies and assemblies instead of
merely plastic injection molded components
- This approach is implemented through
two major vehicles:
- PPMs increased sourcing/purchasing/stocking
of required components
- PPM’s increased investment
in resources to effectively complete
a larger and more diverse scope of
value added operations continues to
be a PPM management priority
Joint total cost reduction projects
- The PPM team works with customer teams,
using techinques such as value stream
mapping, kaizen events, and others as
appropriate to develop operating improvements
in all areas.
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