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10th Anniversary of Goldratt’s Marketing Group | top
Our celebration continues....
As we celebrate our 10th year Anniversary, we are very proud to revisit our second year with the release of the TOC Self Learning Program (TOC- SLP).
There was a growing demand for the Goldratt Satellite Program to be available for individuals in a format that could be used permanently, as a self learning resource in various languages and at affordable prices. As such, the content of the Goldratt Satellite Program was segmented into consecutive high quality digital video clips viewable on CD-ROMS with their corresponding working notebook, under a single-user license and made available in 4 languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese and Czech.
Today the TOC Self Learning Program (TOC-SLP) has been used by thousands of people. Individuals from companies and academia use the TOC-SLP to teach and learn the fundamentals of TOC and its applications to the supply chain going from purchasing, through operations and project management, all the way to distribution, marketing and sales. Additionally a session is devoted to the usage of thinking process tools for conflict resolution and team building, and another session is focused on establishing the necessary elements to bring a company to become ever-flourishing.
The TOC-SLP is demanded by individuals that want to self learn the TOC fundamentals. As such, this month we are announcing two great offers:
Regardless of whether you are top-level management or a front line leader, the TOC Self Learning Programs will provide you with invaluable knowledge and information you can put to work right away in Production, Finance & Measurements, Project Management & Engineering, Distribution and Supply Chain, Marketing, Sales & Buy-In, Managing People and Strategy & Tactics.
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Goldratt's TOC Golden Nugget #4 - Inventory target | top
Watch Dr. Goldratt’s presentation on the TOC solution to adjust inventory levels according to systematic changes in the inventory consumption rate. The robust mechanism called Buffer Management ensures relatively low levels of inventory while having high availability. Specifics of the concept are described and explained in Goldratt’s TOC Golden Nugget #4.
Goldratt's TOC Golden Nugget #4
Inventory target: asymmetric time constants
(MTA; Production)
When experiencing a decline or increase of consumption for an SKU, the inventory target should be changed accordingly. But many times a change in consumption is merely a statistical fluctuation and not a trend, and therefore should not trigger an inventory target change. Trouble is, when experiencing a lower or higher consumption, we cannot foretell if it signifies a long term change that requires action (changing inventory target), or whether it is just a fluctuation.
We want to react quickly to real changes, but not to noise: If we react too fast, many noises will be treated as real changes, and we will cause undesirable oscillations in the system – frequent changes of the inventory target, back and forth. On the other hand, if the reaction will be delayed, the system will meanwhile suffer from either too high or too low inventory levels. Obviously, we need to decide on a suitable time constant for responding to change – determining for how long should the buffer stay red\green before we react by changing the inventory target.
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Unreleased appendix to the original edition of The Choice - To Think About ... Chapter 4 | top
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Previously released: To think about ... Chapter 3 - Click here to read
To think about ... Chapter 4
When I 
asked "What 
can 
help 
a 
person 
to think 
clearly?" Aba 
said 
it's 
all 
about embracing 
the 
concept 
of 
Inherent 
Simplicity. 
There 
is 
no 
point 
in 
bringing 
up 
my 
3 barriers 
yet. 

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his 
lead 
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get 
the 
whole 
picture. 
I 
have 
a 
feeling that, 
not 
before 
long, 
all 
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The Choice
In this book, Goldratt once again presents his thought provoking approach, this time through a conversation with his daughter Efrat, as he explains to her his fundamental system of beliefs - a pragmatic life philosophy.
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How CCAD Tackled A Growing Workload (article)By David Jensen | top
"Like many MRO centers, Corpus Christi Army Depot employs lean and Six Sigma. But it also adopted a management tool that has it enter the world of WIP, buffers and the theory of constraint."
 About a year ago, the Corpus Christi Army Depot (CCAD) faced a dilemma. A steady flow of battle-damaged helicopters was coming in for refurbishment and overhaul from Iraq and Afghanistan, and the center was tasked to carry out two major Sikorsky H-60 upgrade programs. The workload was expanding but not the resources.
CCAD leadership had to determine how to do more with less. They had adopted “leanâ€Â� and Six Sigma, which delivered local gains in segments of the aircraft refurbishment process—for example, in the paint department. But these measures didn’t provide the global benefits needed...
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Linking Project Performance to Business Results
by Ajai Kapoor
Case study, testimonial and experience shared during the 2008 Project Flow Conference. . 43 min, English, Español
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Goldratt Thinking Processes Workshop | top
The purpose of this workshop is to learn and internalize the full Goldratt Thinking Processes and apply them to a very relevant topic (subject matter) of your choosing to emerge with a completed plan to implement (S&T Tree) new groundbreaking solutions necessary to achieve your ever-flourishing objectives.
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Now and into the Future India - Israel | top
"INCREASE THE CASH FLOW AND ACCELERATE GROWTH"
In 3 days, learn directly from Dr. Eli Goldratt what your company can do to immediately free up much more cash and generate more profits than any of the cost cutting activities will accomplish; and with the same actions, strengthen and begin to immunize the company from future economic downturns.
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Presenting the Now and into the Future Workshop
by Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Dr. Eli Goldratt presents in 3 days what your company can do to immediately free up much more cash and generate more profits than any of the cost cutting activities will accomplish; and with the same actions, strengthen and begin to immunize the company from future economic downturns. 4 min, English, Español
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