Customer's Issues

Too many intermediate stocks had always stressed financing. Especially the ones between upper stream (i.e. sheet forming and coating), and lower stream (i.e. printing and cutting) were large in number, which required many man-hours for stock management. This is because the production in the upper stream was planned as made-to-stock in a bigger lot size, when the production in the lower stream was planned as build-to-order in a smaller lot size.

Point of Improvement

We linked the upper stream production volume that is necessary for the production in lower stream within one month to the production in the lower stream and created synchronized scheduling.

Benefits

Three month after implementing the system, the intermediate stock worth 800,000 USD was reduced. Our financing was much improved and we have better ROA now.