Buffer Sizing, Profiles, and Dynamic Adjustments

Supply chain leader Sarah Barnes-Humphrey talks with Demand Driven Technologies CEO Erik Bush about the past, present, and future of the demand-driven movement.

Leah Hoffman sits down with Juan Abbud of STEMCELL Technologies to learn how they built a more adaptive, more resilient supply chain to better serve their customers using DDMRP and hear about the impact COVID had on their supply chain.

In this episode Brad Mitchler, VP of Partners and Products at Demand Driven Technologies, joins Sarah Barnes Humphrey of "Let's Talk Supply Chain" to chat all about what we do, visibility and consumer demand in supply chain, the impact of e-commerce and what the future is going to bring for demand driven supply chains.

Erik Bush, CEO of Demand Driven Technologies sits down with Joey Kline of "Tech Talk" to outline how significant improvements can be made in the supply chain industry with a methodology called Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning (DDMRP).

In Process: Conversations about Business in the 21st Century with Evelyn Ashley and John Monahon presented by Trusted Counsel, welcomes CEO of Demand Driven Technologies, Erik Bush, to continue the series of “Pithy Conversations with CEOs.”

In the last episode we completed the 5th and last component of DDMRP, namely Visible and Collaborative Execution. In this episode, we get into Demand Driven Sales and Operations Planning, and discuss DDMRP’s impact on scheduling compared to traditional Master Production Scheduling and Shop Floor Scheduling.

Ken Titmuss discusses the 5thcomponent of DDMRP, namely Visible and Collaborative Execution. Up to this point we have discussed the first four components of DDMRP, that is Strategic Inventory Positioning, Buffer Sizing and Buffer Profiles, Dynamic Adjustment and last time, Demand Driven Planning.

With these three components of DDMRP in place we can start using the fourth component which is Demand Driven Planning. In this episode we are going to look at some of the part planning designators and talk about the planning process for stocked parts.

In this episode, Ken looks at when inventory is regarded as being an asset or a liability, lists some of the factors to be considered when constructing DDMRP buffers as well as understanding the logic and purpose of the three difference zones in the buffer.

This episode Ken Titmuss of Demand Driven Africa looks at the difference between traditional MRP and Lean. He establishs what Demand Driven really means, and introduces the Demand Driven Operating Model as well as Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning.