MOMENTIVE PERFORMANCE MATERIALS
“ We have been able to generate a lot of value at our plants : minimizing changeovers , reducing inventory because of a better sequence plan , and gaining better visibility ” solution with the key people there and refine it some more .” Following some more fine tuning the team returns to the site to do the detailed training , start to use the tool , leaving some team members on site to support , measure , and make sure the process is working as it should .
At first , he says , one site was tackled at a time , but now they are doing two at a time . “ In the last month we went live in Germany and in Florida and started the process in Brazil and Japan too . We are a lot faster now . At the beginning the
– William Duty , Director of Momentive ’ s Supply Chain Center of Excellence
Example : Arkieva view of how inventory has changed
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