DesignSeat Case Study

ADVANCED SUPPLY
Advanced CHAIN
Supply PLANNING
Chain Planning Advanc
Lab
LAB
DesignSeat Case Study

Miragliotta Giovanni
Team members: Melissa Motta
giovanni.miragliotta@polimi.it
Natascia Oprandi
Qianning Li

Advanced Supply Chain Planning Lab

Giovanni Miragliotta

Advanced Supply Chain Planning Lab

Giovanni Miragliotta
 Identify those signals which highlight relevant problems in the
current Operations Management approach

• Lack of inventories management

• High numberAdvanced
of components Supply
( in case of Chain
stock out Planning Lab
they use a similar
one)
• Lack of production optimization ( the foreman DesignSeat
decides forCase Study
his own
department where to process the materials)
• Lack of data monitoring for production(ex: set up) Miragliotta Giovanni
• Bad customer order management giovanni.miragliotta@polimi.it
• Visibility and internal communication
• Lack of demand management

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 Identify the bottleneck using the provided data / information

• FinishingAdvanced
part machining because,
Supply related toLab
Chain Planning
the total rough machining department, the
production time is higher. DesignSeat Case Study

Miragliotta Giovanni
giovanni.miragliotta@polimi.it

Advanced Supply Chain Planning Lab

Giovanni Miragliotta
 Compare different feasible alternatives of decoupling point
positioning by showing pros and cons of each alternative

After the rough shaping

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-No finished products in stock
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-More customer order’s oriented
- Better management of the bottleneckMiragliotta Giovanni
giovanni.miragliotta@polimi.it
-Better SL

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Giovanni Miragliotta
 Which actions (both breakthroughs and quick wins) would you
suggest?

• If the Decaf conditions are satisfied : lean

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with a supermarket after the Planning
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and a FIFO following
• From a job shop to an assembly DesignSeat
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• Improve and enlarge the communication and the

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integration system
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• Create a picking system ( picking list or other
more evolved solution)
• Reduce the RM stock at the beginning of the
production flow ( 6months are too much!)

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 COMMENTS
• Teacher : poor analysis, no analysis, no
pictures, no datas.
• The RM stock has a reason ( particular
treatment of the wood)