3rd Thursday Web-based Seminars

How to Dramatically Improve the Quality of Your Shipment ForecastsTechniques to Improve Forecast Inputs ...on January 19, 2012. This montha ™s powerful 1-hour 3rd Thursday - a Operations Improvement Seriesa Webinar has five important objectives: 1. Learn how to organize for improved forecasting, including the role of the a Chief Forecaster.a 2. Understand the importance of equally considering past, present and future data in order to understand the direction and projected magnitude  more...

Constructing a Component Criticality Matrix A Better Way to Identify Important Components ...of stratification. The purpose of this montha ™s 3rd Thursday - a Operations Improvement webinar is to present a mechanism for identifying the parts that are most critical so that added planning and procurement attention can be applied. The Component Criticality Matrix is a tangible analytic tool that helps all Purchasing professionals to quantifiably determine how critical a part  more...

How to Achieve Maintain ERP Systems Master File Data Integrity ... Manufacturing Executive Institutea ™s May 19th 2011 3rd Thursday - a Operations Improvement Series FREE webinar, How to Achieve & Maintain ERP Systems Master File Data Integrity. Contrary to the popular belief that modern, fully-integrated information systems provide executives with the tools to make more effective and efficient decisions, there is increasing evidence that this  more...

Integrative Activity Based Costing Leadership An Overview of Bottom Up Cost Accounting ...3rd Thursday - a Operations Improvement webinar has 3 important objectives: 1. To demonstrate how a bottom-up version of ABCA can be used to better allocate support costs. With some commonly used value engineering tools, a new perspective of product cost can be developed. 2. To demonstrate how any standard cost accounting system can be made to calculate allocations based on  more...

A Case for Routine Use of Statistical Process Control SPC in Manufacturing ...facturing Executive Institutea ™s FREE February 2011 3rd Thursday - a Operations Improvement webinar, A Case for Routine Use of Statistical Process Control (SPC) in Manufacturing. Statistical Process Control is a term that describes a process for predicting failures and methodically determining the underlying cause(s) before the predicted failures can manifest into real failures. SPC  more...

Demystifying the Calculations of Efficiency Utilization and Productivity ... Manufacturing Executive Institutea ™s November 2010 3rd Thursday - a Operations Improvement Series FREE webinar, Demystifying the Calculations of Efficiency, Utilization & Productivity. Given enough time, important terms always seem to morph and get used interchangeably. This is true with many daily terms we use in business. Worse, when important terms morph, the original (and  more...

How to Calculate the Impact on Total Factory Costs from a One Percent Change in Planned Load ...Manufacturing Executive Institutea ™s September 2010 3rd Thursday - Operations Improvement Series FREE webinar, How to Calculate the Impact on Total Factory Costs From a 1% Change in Planned Load. The largest cost driver in most manufacturing companies, outside of the cost of direct material, is underutilization of semi-fixed and fixed costs. These costs are the aggregated expenditures  more...

A Better Method for Cross Training Production Personnel ...he Manufacturing Executive Institutea ™s August 2009 3rd Thursday - Operations Improvement Series FREE webinar, A Better Method for Cross-Training Production Personnel. Companies that take cross training of production personnel seriously report as much as a 30% fewer direct labor employees than exact peer companies. They also report faster cycle times, higher fill rates and lower  more...

Operations Improvements Monthly Webinar each month on the 3rd Thursday, this Webinar series addresses one or more SPECIFIC issues facing OPERATIONS professionals in the maufacturing and distribution industries.  more...