¶ … Alex is facing and evaluate different tools to arrive at the solutions. Moreover, the paper evaluates the newer tools such as lean, six sigma, and the internet to arrive at the solution the problem that Alex is facing. The paper provides the overview of the problems that Alex Rogo is asked to solve within three months.
The focus of this paper centers on Alex Rogo, a plant manager of the Uniware, a division of Unico. Alex's meeting with his boss, Bill Peach, reveals that the company is facing challenges and Alex is given an ultimatum of three months to improve the performances of the plants. However, Alex is unable to use available outside tools such as surveys and consultant because of the limited time. With narrow channel to follow, Alex remembered Jonah whom he knew in its previous workplace. With the current company's situation, Alex decided to have a conversation with Jonah, and the conversation made Alex to realize that the goal of any modern business is to make money. Alex further realizes that action towards achieving the goal is to move towards being productive and desist from non-productive actions. (Goldratt, 2004). A further contact with Jonah makes them to define measurement for a plant production:
Measurements:
Throughout: is a system that generates money from sales by this rate. The measurement consists of a market share of the company's product after deducting inventory and operating expenses.
Inventory: consists the money used to purchase items to be sold in the market.
Operational expense: This consist the money to turn inventory into throughput and include items such as oil, lubricating, scraps and depreciation. (Goldratt, 2004).
Although, Alex could have been able to arrive at the solution to the problem using the Goal tools, however, recent development in technology and operational management theory reveal alternative toolsets that Alex Rogo can use. The paper discusses newer tools that could affect the choice of the solutions to Alex problem.
1. Availability of newer Tools
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