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How much can dynamic buffer management really handle?

Let’s suppose that you’re implementing TOC in Christy’s footwear, a company with the following characteristics: They own six stores that sell men and women’s shoes and hold about 1,000 SKUs per store. The six shops are spread throughout the same city and are just 30 minutes away from one another, so distances are definitely not […]

Definiendo el Segmento de Mercado

Por Eli Schragenheim   Nota del traductor:   Una ventaja competitiva decisiva (VCD) es una ventaja de mercado significativa y sostenible sobre los competidores. Una VCD existe solo cuando una organización satisface una necesidad significativa del mercado al punto de que ningún competidor significativo lo pueda hacer.   En muchas situaciones, los competidores no son […]

A common mistake with ∆ROI

Throughput accounting is based on three simple measurements: throughtput (T), investment (I) and operational expense (OE). These measurements are then used to calculate two measurements that determine the profitability of a company: Net Profit (NP) and Return Over Investment (ROI). The formulas for these two variables are: NP = T – OE ROI = (T […]