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Going Lean, Step by Step, with IFS Applications

Posted on Wednesday, October, 1, 2008, 12:00PM

This whitepaper explains how IFS Applications supports lean principles in the many manufacturing environments that require both rate-based (takt-driven) and order-based shop-floor execution. Learn how to support lean practices from forecasting demand, customer scheduling, and leveling production to setting line rates, Kaizen costing and pulling parts using Kanban signals at the pace of actual demand.

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