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Lessons
Hidden mechanisms
- Transfer lots: the next station starts before this one finishesWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- All units price break: the extra unit that lowers the invoiceWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Intermediate maximum: the yard peaks before clearance endsWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Distribution tails: the same moments, different worst daysWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
Dates and delay
- Correlation: every estimate honest and the sum still lateWhat this page carries: Calculation · Table
- Total float: who owns it decides whether the finish date movesWhat this page carries: Calculation · Table
- Concurrent delay: two delays at once, five different answersWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table
- Prolongation and disruption: delay costs money twiceWhat this page carries: Calculation · Table
- Driving delay: separate events can share a completion effectCan two events share a completion effect without overlapping on the calendar?What this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Schedule update analysis: the update moved six days, the calculation forty twoWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table
- Reference class forecasting: where the estimate sits in the class you choseWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table
What one number hides
- Safety stock: variance beats the average lead timeWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table
- KPI definitions: the same data looks healthy while the operation degradesWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table
- Bullwhip effect: a small steady rise becomes a violent swing upstreamWhat this page carries: Calculation · Table
- Flaw of averages: the answer at the average is not the average answerWhat this page carries: Calculation · Table
- Forecast accuracy metrics: the same forecast, scored four waysWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table
- Monte Carlo simulation: one run is vivid and still an anecdoteWhat this page carries: Calculation · Table
- Unchanged region: values you checked, not a range you provedWhat this page carries: Calculation · Table
What a shipment costs
What the paperwork has to prove
How much to hold, and how much to order
- Service level: what the last percent of it costsWhat shortage cost is implied by the last increment of service?What this page carries: Calculation · Table · Print
- Newsvendor model: order once, and the average is the wrong numberWhat this page carries: Calculation · Table
- Risk pooling: safety stock falls, the stock in transit does notWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table
What a balance has to account for
How work moves, and what the numbers are about
What the rate curve decides
What the load is before anybody moves it
What the count never saw
- Acceptance sampling: a pass leaves room for defectsHow often does a declared sample plan pass a lot at a specified defective fraction?What this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Length bias: what is open reads longer than what is closedWhat this page carries: Calculation · Table
- Erlang B: nobody is waiting, and some were turned awayWhat this page carries: Calculation · Table
What the programme has already decided
What has to be counted apart
What reaches the purchase order
The whole number, and what stopped it
- Multiple comparisons: three differences looked real, one survives the familyWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Extreme value: pooling steadies a sum, a consolidation waits on the lastWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Bid cost: the eighth invitation is the first that loses moneyAt which invitation count does preparing a bid stop paying?What this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Apportionment: the pool grew by one and a claimant lost its only unitCan a claimant lose a unit when the pool grows and its own claim does not move?What this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
Case studies
- The receiving yardHow does one operating choice change the queue, its cost and the trucks seen waiting?What this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- The season's orderHow does an order change when packing, cost and delivery become known?What this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- The opening dateWhen can the site open after project work and every required delivery are ready?What this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
48 records
Tools
- Factory shutdowns: the closures your schedule assumes are openWhat this page carries: Calculation · Print
- Air and sea breakeven: the point where speed pays for itselfWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Print
- Cost of payment terms: a share of the unit priceWhat this page carries: Calculation · Print
- Bid levelling: every quote on one landed cost per unitWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Container utilisation: will it fit, and what runs out firstWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Chargeable weight: the same divisor gives two totalsWhen does applying the same divisor per piece add weight to the shipment total?What this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Allocation basis: value preserves the price orderWhich allocation basis can reverse the starting unit price order?What this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Contacting stages: a second ideal contact can add nothingWhy can a second ideal contact add no recovery with the same total agent?What this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Setup load: the fast cycle still falls shortDoes the production batch leave enough capacity after its setup time is counted?What this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Reorder point: which of the four stock numbers the policy comparesWhich inventory position should be compared with the reorder point?What this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Documentary credit deadlines: four clocks, and one of them is yoursWhat this page carries: Calculation · Table · Print
- Pallet patterns: the bottom carton decides between two layer buildsWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Connection window: the next sailing sets the price of a missWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Backward scheduling: the tightest document is not always the slowest oneWhich document date controls the workback once every preparation and approval step is shown?What this page carries: Calculation · Table · Print
- Reference state: two property tables, one hidden offsetDo two property sources report the same change after their hidden reference offset is removed?What this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Port productivity: one call, three clocks, three readingsWhich clock is the denominator of the port call rate being quoted?What this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Decimal separator: the same digits, two readingsWhat exact values result when the same separator is assigned two declared roles?What this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Spend weighted average: one supplier closes the whole gap, until none canWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Kraljic matrix: a low value part with one source is not routineWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Derating factors: the drum rating is not the rating in the trayWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Free time: six days or ten, on the convention you declareWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Value of information: a check pays only when it changes an actionWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Amount of substance: the larger volume can be the smaller amountWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Multiple steady states: the branch depends on which way you arrivedWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- First in first out: the record says oldest, the yard newestWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Hijri anniversary: three years in Hijri months end thirty three days earlyWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Working week: four declared weeks give four dates from one ThursdayWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Common cause dependency: three qualified sources, and one week leaves oneWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Continuity rule: the bar runs thirty days, ten of them workedWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Date constraint: the delay in front of the date stopped travellingWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Windows analysis: nothing in the record changed and the count didWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Time and money: an event passes one gate and fails the otherWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Approval lead time: the change is one delay, the answer anotherWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Double counting: one crew, and the same hours in the total twiceWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Supplier fixed cost: the lowest line prices give the highest billWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Guard band: the measurement did not move and the three rules disagreedWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Rules of origin: one consignment, three declared tests, and they disagreeWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Notice period: the later of two dates is the shorter periodWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Delay analysis methods: the records carry them, the software does notWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Bank guarantee run-off: the work is done, the bond stands in fullWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Allocation rules: six hundred units arrived, two locations still shortWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Round trip time: the year holds seven trips, the eighth falls shortWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Lumped capacitance: after ten hours one packing is still under its limitWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Blending index: at fifty per cent the two rules disagreeWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Rate controlling step: halving the particle moves nothing, doubling the velocity doesWhat this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Walk-aways first: the middle of the zone is not the middle of the openingsWhere does the even split of a price zone sit against the middle of the two opening numbers?What this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Shared delivery route: each segment is charged to whoever needs it drivenWhich stops pay for road they never need driven when a shared route is split by distance?What this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
- Lot split ratios: ten lots read 1.6 bidders per lot if they compete and 0.5 if they shareHow many bidders per lot does a split leave once you read it under competition and again under sharing?What this page carries: Calculation · Comparison · Table · Print
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Reference
- PPE standards: what each one covers and where its claim stopsWhat this page carries:
- PPE markings: what the string on the shell is claimingWhat this page carries:
- Commercial agency: agent, distributor, and what registration changesWhat this page carries:
- Counterexamples: where each rule stops, and where it starts againWhere does a stated rule stop holding, and what condition puts it back?What this page carries: Comparison · Table · Print
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