Case studies

Run one paid pilot batch a year with a supplier you are not using.

A contract assembler went from responsive to unreachable in three weeks. The switch took four months, and three of them were qualification the team could have done a year earlier.

List every part over 12 weeks lead time in week one and order the top three on a best guess.

A compressor with a 22-week lead time set the whole schedule, and the team discovered that four months after freezing everything else.