ISBN-13: 9781574442717 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 272 str.
The authors, experts from Lucent Technologies, discuss in detail the r elationship between the 3Cs - capacity, commonality, and consumption - and how this relationship can revolutionize your business. You will l earn how to: reduce overhead expense and improve shipping performance by using the business capacity as the basis for materials planning; re duce investments in inventory by using the commonality of components; obtain dramatic improvements in the lead time of customer orders by us ing the actual consumption of materials instead of inaccurate sales fo recasts as the basis for purchasing.