1. Sleeping Cash
Find the cash trapped in inventory, WIP and finished goods
PPC Journeys
18 journeys from sleeping cash to the factory that learns
Each PPC Journey takes one business problem that engineering manufacturers live with every month and follows it through eight episodes: the story, the numbers behind it and what to change on Monday morning. Together they are the way we think about production planning and control.
The series
All 18 journeys
Cash and material
Find the money trapped in stock, buy smarter and keep material moving toward the customer.
2. The Smart Buyer
Buy the right material, in the right quantity, at the right time
3. From Material to Value
Keep material flowing until it becomes customer value
Delivery and trust
Recover revenue at risk and become the supplier customers never worry about.
4. The Revenue Rescue Mission
Recover dispatches blocked by constraints
5. The Trust Factory
Protect future revenue through on-time delivery
Flow, speed and capacity
Release WIP, cut lead time and discover capacity you already own.
6. The Money Sleeping on the Shop Floor
Release cash blocked in work-in-progress
7. The Fast Factory
Cut manufacturing lead time and bring cash in sooner
8. The Invisible Factory
Create capacity without capital investment
Profit and people
Make better decisions, earn on every order, stop paying for panic and stop burning out people.
9. The Thinking Factory
Build a plant where every decision makes it smarter
10. The Profitable Factory
Know which orders, products and customers make money
11. The Silent Profit Killers
Stop paying for urgency, expediting and firefighting
12. The Sustainable Factory
Deliver on time without depending on overtime and heroics
Quality, partners and lasting value
Build quality in, grow with suppliers and customers, turn value into cash and keep learning.
13. The Invisible Defect
Build quality into the process, first time right
14. Partners in Progress
Turn suppliers and job workers into partners
15. The Wealth-Creating Factory
Build enterprise value, not only monthly profit
16. The Breathing Factory
Win repeat business by making the customer win first
17. Cash Is Oxygen
Convert value into cash across the whole operating cycle
18. The Factory That Learns
Make improvement continue without the owner pushing it
From journey to results
Which journey is your plant on?
Most plants recognise themselves in two or three journeys. We start from those, measure the baseline and work until the numbers move, on success fees.