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Logistics / SCM Model in Manufacturing
How a plant is fed, sequenced and shipped.
What this theme covers
Production gets the attention, but a plant lives or dies on the material flow around it. This theme takes the cohort from the raw material gate to the finished goods dock, through stores, line-side supermarkets, kanban loops and WIP movement, and pairs it with the planning logic that decides what arrives when.
On the floor
- ✦Raw material stores and line-side supermarkets
- ✦Inbound milk runs and dock scheduling
- ✦Kanban boards, bins and line-feeding routes
- ✦WIP movement between shops and buffer points
- ✦Finished goods staging and dispatch lanes
- ✦Returnable packaging and bin circulation loops
In the briefing
- Make-to-stock against make-to-order, and what each does to inventory
- How the bill of material drives the inbound plan
- The handoff from production plan to material plan through MRP
- Inventory norms, safety stock and days of cover
- Supplier clustering, milk runs and just-in-time windows
- The cost heads that make up plant logistics spend
What you leave with
01
Map a plant's material flow from gate to gate
02
Connect a production schedule to supplier call-offs
03
Find where inventory quietly accumulates in a plant
Trails on this theme
Built for
Mechanical, production and supply chain students, plant planners and inbound logistics executives.
Typical hosts
Discrete and process manufacturing plants across the industrial belt.
Format
One-day site visit and briefing, scheduled with the institute as a batch.