Theory of Constraints on Operations / Production

1. GSP on Operations - DBR and Buffer Management

Presents the TOC application of DBR and Buffer Mgmt for your organization.

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Ch 07. A Review of Literature on Drum-Buffer-Rope, Buffer Mgmt and Distribution

Reviews articles describing the application of DBR, Buffer Mgmt, and replenishment.

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Ch 08. DBR, Buffer Management, and VATI Flow Classification

This chapter examines the application of TOC to production or manufacturing environments.

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CH 09. From DBR to Simplified-DBR for Make-to-Order

This chapter is not focused on DBR, but on S-DBR

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Ch 10. Managing Make-to-Stock and the Concept of Make-to-Availability

Focuses on Make-To Availability and the operational ramifications.

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Ch 11. Supply Chain Management

A guide to manage stocks across the supply chain according to TOC principles.

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Ch 12. Integrated Supply Chain

The chapter introduces a new concept called Actively Synchronized Replenishment.

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Ch 36. Combining Lean, Six Sigma, and the TOC to Achieve Breakthrough Performance

Provides the synergies and the discords of TOC and Lean Six Sigma.

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Constraint management within manufacturing: Optimising the global supply chain

Focusing on making money out of the supply chain.

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Demand Driven Performance: Using Smart Metrics

A different way to think, design, operate, and measure a system in a complex and volatile world.

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ERP Tools, Techniques and Applications for Integrating the Supply Chain

It is the first ERP book to deal with Sales and Operations Planning.

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Essays on the Theory of Constraints

This collection of essays was originally published in The Journal on the Theory of Constraints.

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Ever Improve 1: Understanding the Operational Environment

Takes the reader through the processes and the challenges that are facing the managers that are in charge of maintaining and improving flow.

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Focused Operations Management for Health Services Organizations

Significantly improve the operations of Health Services Organizations.

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Golden nugget 10: MTA + MTO Mixed environment

Operating in a partly MTA, partly MTO environment.

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Golden nugget 11: Light blue 1, or: A way to exploit the protective capacity – Have your cake and e

How can we make sure that the proper amount of protective capacity will be maintained?

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Golden nugget 12: Light blue 2, or: A way to exploit the protective capacity using orders (as oppos

Processing clients’ orders by the protective capacity.

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Golden nugget 13: Reaching the plateau of the U-curve

In a recent audit of an MTO company (producing metal cables of the kind that is used for holding elevators), two mysteries were evident.

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Golden nugget 14: Sustaining Continuous Growth

Deepen our cause and effect understanding that underlie the mechanisms for further increase of capacity and for adjusting the buffers.

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Golden nugget 1: The Evergreen Elephant

Managing production priorities in an Make to Availability environment is simple when using the Theory of Constraints buffer management solution.

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Golden nugget 5: Assessing super rapid time at an early stage

Fully enroll the Rapid Response (RR) offer, without taking a risk of deteriorating Reliability.

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Golden nugget 6: Fine tune of the priority system – an exception

Handling priorities in situations where there are product families with considerably different production buffers.

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Golden nugget 7: Minimum batch progression

There are times that a technical consideration at a certain work-center forces us to process a minimum batch which is bigger than the order.

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Golden nugget 8: When you say “red”, what do you mean?

When we are told that a production company has 20% red orders, what does that mean?

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Improving System Performance

Describes how the five main steps of TOC were applied to eliminate waste at a supplier firm in Turkey.

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La Meta: Un Proceso de Mejora Continua (audiobook)

La Meta es la emocionante novela que está transformando el pensamiento de los directivos de todo el mundo.

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Learning the Basis of DBR and Buffer Management

How to implemnt Drum-Buffer-Rope and Buffer Management.

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Managing Operations

Underscores the concept of managing the business as a system.

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Manufacturer's Guide to Implementing the Theory of Constraints

Complete step-by-step guide for implementing TOC in a manufacturing organization.

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Manufacturing at Warp Speed: Optimizing Supply Chain Financial Performance

How to maximize sales revenue while controlling inventory and overhead costs.

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N&S Series - 3. A Look into the Rules of Operations

Challenges the traditional cost-world perspective vs the throughput-world mentality.

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Production the TOC Way with Simulator

Deepening DBR knowledge through simulation, exercises and examples.

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Profitability With No Boundaries: iTLSBOK: Body Of Knowledge

This “how to” & “why” guide is for practitioners & those responsible for implementing iTLS, the integration of the Theory of Constraints (TOC), Lean and Six Sigma.

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Profitability With No Boundaries: Executive Edition & Leadership Summary

This Executive edition provides a leadership summary of the approach & benefits of adopting an iTLS approach, the integration TOC, Lean and Six Sigma.

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Re-engineering the manufacturing system

A guide on how to build, implement, and use a manufacturing system.

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Regaining Competitiveness: Putting The Goal to work

The main topics covered in The Goal book are summarized.

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S&T Tree - Consumer Goods - Inventory Turns

This eDocument shows you the strategy & tactics to ensure 100% availability with minimum stock.

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S&T Tree - Moving from MTS to MTA

Create a decisive competitive edge based on extremely good inventory turns.

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S&T Tree - Reliable Rapid Response

Create a decisive competitive edge based on reliability and rapid response to customer needs.

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Synchronous Management Vol.1

How to implement Synchronous Management techniques.

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Synchronous Management Vol.2

Provides implementation examples and case studies, including classification of V-A-T manufacturing plants.

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The Constraints Management Handbook

It unifies the pieces in production between MRP, JIT and TOC.

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The Goal Audiobook - 30th Anniversary Edition

A business novel in production taught and used by thousands of Companies and schools.

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The Goal Movie - How to Version

This movie shows how to use the Five Focusing Steps in your organization.

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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

A business novel in production taught and used by thousands of Companies and business schools.

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The GST Program on moving from MTS to MTA

Learn the strategies and tactics to create a decisive competitive edge by moving to MTA.

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The Haystack Syndrome

Most of us are drowning in oceans of data, so why does it seem we have sufficient information?

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The Path: Leveraging Operations in a Complex and Chaotic World

A game changing way of leveraging operations to achieve breakthrough performance.

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The Race

How to focus logical improvements so they are optimal and nor just local.

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The Theory of Constraints: Applications in Quality Manufacturing

Aiming to change the paradigms of traditional management strategies.

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The Ultimate Improvement Cycle

Maximizing Profits through the Integration of Lean, Six Sigma, and the Theory of Constraints.

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Theory of Constraints Handbook

All 38 chapters, where several authors explain TOC and present case studies of how and why it works.

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TOC Executive Challenge: A Goal Game

This user guide and game puts you in charge of your own production plant.

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TOC Insights into Operations

This learning tool is an interactive presentation to learn DBR.

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TOC Self Learning Package

Learn the TOC concepts and principles applied to various areas within an organization.

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TOC Thinking: Removing Constraints for Business Growth

Why write a book about management philosophy?

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TOC.tv Basic Membership

Don´t miss this unique opportunity! Access all TOC Conference Presentations on TOC.tv with hundreds of videos sharing knowledge, case studies, implementation learnings, testimonials and new developments.

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Tough Fabric

A real-life account of supply chain integration in the textile industry.

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Velocity: Combining Lean, Six Sigma and the Theory of Constraints to Achieve Breakthrough Performanc

Bottom-line results by integrating Lean, Six Sigma, and Theory of Constraints.

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