Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Inventory management
Reexamination Certificate
2005-11-29
2005-11-29
Jaketic, Bryan (Department: 3627)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Inventory management
C705S022000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06970841
ABSTRACT:
A manufacturing process is migrated from an existing operation to a configure-to-order (CTO) system. As the CTO operation will eliminate the “machine-type model” (MTM) inventory of the existing operation, the emphasis is shifted to the components, or “building blocks”, which will still follow the build-to-stock scheme, due to their long leadtimes, and hence still require inventory. The solution involves an inventory-service trade-off of the new CTO system, resulting in performance gains, in terms of reduced inventory cost and increased service level. Other benefits include better forecast accuracy through parts commonality and risk-pooling, and increased customer demand, as orders will no longer be confined within a restricted set of pre-configured MTMs.
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Cheng Feng
Ettl Markus
Lin Grace Yuh-Jiun
Yao David Da-Wel
Jaketic Bryan
Kaufman Stephen C.
Laneau Ronald
Whitham Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.
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