March 17, 2011

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	Leading People Through Change - NEW Book
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Featuring in this TOC Weekly!

	Goldratt's Golden Nugget #14 - Sustaining Continuous Growth
	A TOC Solution for Production and Consumer Goods Environments - Special Offer
	We have implemented TOC: Now what? - TOCICO Video of the Week
	For our friends in Academia - Attend an exclusive one day event with Dr. Goldratt
	Orlicky's Material Requirements Planning (3rd. Edition) - New Book
	TOC Events - GMG displays at upcoming CMUC!

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Capacity Control in MTA	We have implemented TOC: Now what?	The reason for Technology

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Goldratt's Golden Nugget #14 | top

Sustaining Continuous Growth

It is common to see, in mature TOC production implementations, that once sales have increased and the CCRs were elevated, the number of red orders might start to increase. If no corrective actions are taken, further increase in sales will cause the DDP performance to deteriorate (number of blacks increase) which endangers the decisive competitive edge of the company. Since in a VV implementation we want to continuously increase sales, the S&T guides us to put in place the mechanisms that should be used for further increase of capacity and for adjusting the buffers. The intention of this nugget is to deepen our cause and effect understanding that underlie those mechanisms.

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A TOC Solution for Production and Consumer Goods Environments - Special Offer | top

The three most important questions in improving an organization are:

What to change?
To what to change to? and
How to cause the change? >>> INSIDE THIS PACKAGE

YOU WILL FIND DOCUMENTED ANSWERS TO THE THIRD QUESTION.

Level 4 & 5 of the Strategy & Tactics trees provides the "HOW TO" details!

The Goldratt Webcast Program "from Make to Stock to Make to Availability" in combination with Production the TOC Way Book, both delivered and authored by Dr. Eli Goldratt, have a focus on implementing changes that allow organizations in the Consumer Goods environment to achieve bottom-line results in a surprisingly short time, with full buy-in and generating the base for an ever-flourishing organization.

If you want and/or need to know the details of HOW to implement a simple, yet powerful solution to move from Make to Stock (MTS) to Make to Availability (MTA), this offer is for you.

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We have implemented TOC: Now what? - TOCICO Video of the Week | top

Palisades,
New York, USA
June 13-16, 2011

View this case study presentation with results of implementing the TOC solution for operations.

We have implemented TOC: Now what?
by Agnesa Stemberger

Access this video for FREE
until March 27th >

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Don't wait until the last minute! There are ~~206~~ 41 rooms left in the All Inclusive Registration for the International Conference. Register now to reserve your room at the conference center. Remember that if you register before April 13th, you can save with the Early Bird registration pricing. After April 13th, pricing will rise to normal conference rates. Please visit the 2011 Conference page for more information.

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For our friends in Academia - Attend an exclusive one day event with Dr. Goldratt | top

The Goldratt Group is offering an opportunity for professors to participate in various programs in order to gain in-depth knowledge in the Theory of Constraints and the ability to teach within a holistic view, providing a true competitive advantage for Universities.

The opportunity for Professors
April 11th, 2011 in Pittsburgh, PA

This ONE DAY event is conducted personally by Dr. Goldratt as he presents the "gestalt" of TOC (the equivalent of a 3D picture) and shows how through management attention and focus significant results and bottomline improvements can be achieved to create an ever-flourishing company. During this one day, TOC Champions who have attended the recent 3-day Now & Into the Future workshop will bring the managers and leaders from their organization together and meet with Dr. Goldratt for the purpose of gaining a better understanding of the direction and achieving the buy-in necessary in order to move forward in this journey.

Testimonial

TOC Academics, I recently found the TOC Flux Capacitor!

It happened in 15 seconds while I attended Eli Goldratt's Now and Into the Future event in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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James R. Holt, Ph.D., PE
Engineering & Technology Management
Washington State University

The April 4th gathering is reserved exclusively for the attendees of previous Now and Into the Future events. However, a certain number of spaces have been reserved for professors who are interested to bring TOC into their teachings. Qualified professors will be offered an opportunity to join this event for US$110.00 which is the amount to cover the total variable expenses.

If this meets with your interest, and you would like to understand the TOC body of knowledge and its holistic application, then in order to participate in this ONE DAY event, please complete an online application by clicking the button below. You will be asked to complete a form with your contact information and to provide your curriculum vitae along with a personal letter expressing your interest.

APPLY for 1 DAY

If your schedule does not allow you to participate in this presentation, please consider other future programs including the TOC Fundamentals course and Start up Workshop. Academic grants are available to select professors and cover about 85% of the program fees. For a detailed list of programs and offerings, please visit our Academic mini-site at: http://www.TOC-Goldratt.com/Academia/opportunities

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Orlicky's Material Requirements Planning (3rd. Edition) - New Book | top

Orlicky's Material Requirements Planning (3rd. Edition)
by Carol Ptak and Chad Smith
Available in June 2011

The classic MRP work up-to-date with new information on supply chain synchronization

Thoroughly revised, Orlicky's Materials Requirements Planning, Third Edition reviews the poor business results embedded in most of today's business systems; discusses the core problems causing the results; presents and discusses an alternative pull structure for planning and controlling materials flow; and presents initial results from actual implementations. This new edition reveals the next evolutionary step for materials and supply chain synchronization in the modern manufacturing landscape. This update describes:

A solution to a chronic MRP-related problem that plagues many manufacturers: shortages of materials, components that block the smooth flow of work through the plant
A competitive edge through strategic lead time reductions
Significant reductions in total inventory investment
Significant increases in service levels

This new edition helps companies tackle three pervasive problems: unacceptable inventory performance; unacceptable service level performance; and high related expenses and waste.

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Materials or Capacity - Where to Focus First?

The core driver behind the changes felt by every manufacturer today is that global capacity now exceeds global demand. Where companies struggled to wring every bit of output out of scarce capacity in the late 1990's, now most companies worldwide have more internal capacity than market demand for their products. The assumptions made in the earliest days of MRP that there was infinite capacity are probably more realistic today than when MRP was first developed.

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TOC Events - GMG displays at upcoming CMUC! | top

Goldratt's Marketing Group has been invited to display at the upcoming Constraints Management User Conference. This year's conference will feature two plant tours (Bowden MFG and Wellman Products), the release of groundbreaking demand driven techniques and a special dinner event participants will not forget. Through over 20 different sessions & workshops including company case studies, pre-conference events, update sessions and a special keynote address (Erik Bush, recently retired IBM) you can discover and/or share in a solution to these challenging times that allows you to concentrate effort and investment while reducing waste, conserving cash and improving service levels throughout your organization and supply chain.

Please join us - Mark your calendars!

Constraints Management User Conference
May 4-6, 2011
Cleveland, OH

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Goldratt's Golden Nugget #14 | top

A TOC Solution for Production and Consumer Goods Environments - Special Offer | top

We have implemented TOC: Now what? - TOCICO Video of the Week | top

For our friends in Academia - Attend an exclusive one day event with Dr. Goldratt | top

Orlicky's Material Requirements Planning (3rd. Edition) - New Book | top

Orlicky's Material Requirements Planning (3rd. Edition) by Carol Ptak and Chad Smith Available in June 2011

TOC Events - GMG displays at upcoming CMUC! | top

Orlicky's Material Requirements Planning (3rd. Edition)
by Carol Ptak and Chad Smith
Available in June 2011