Projects

Setting the cadence of your pacemaker

I am currently working on a visual workbook that translates my academic research on the Bullwhip Effect into a toolkit that practicing lean managers can read, understand, and apply to their own businesses. I hope to finish this workbook by September 2025.

May 5, 2025

Vendor managed inventory at P&G

I am currently working with Procter and Gamble on implementing the vendor managed inventory (VMI) protocol in their supply chain network in China. VMI was the topic of my PhD; it is very intersting to revisit this topic again some 25 years after gaining my PhD.

May 4, 2025

Forecasting and production planning at Yeo Valley

Forecasting

Batch size reduction

Production planning

I recently finished a 2-year project that improved the forecasting and production planning processes within Yeo Valley, one of the largest organic dairy producers in the UK. After dynamically mapping the values streams, we changed and improved the forecasting and production planning process for over 400 products across two whole factories. The project led to a significant increasing in customer service levels, a reduction of FGI, fresher product being sold to the consumer, and a more stable production plan with fewer urgent production orders.

Sep 1, 2019

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Setting the cadence of your pacemaker

Vendor managed inventory at P&G

Forecasting and production planning at Yeo Valley