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T001. Democratic Decision-Making (Faced with multiple choices, which will gain most acceptance?)

T002. Commonality Trees (How to establish postponement and stocking policy)

T003. Socratic problem solving (How to separate truth from opinion)

T004. Chunking (How to split a project into logical units of work to aid scheduling)

T005. Centralization vs. Decentralization Analysis (Should a service be provided centrally or de-centrally?)

T006. Pareto Analysis (How to separate the important from the trivial)

T007. CARAP Analysis (Defining & Measuring Required / Employed Resources for a Process or Service to drive performance improvement (or why OME / OEE is for the birds)

T008. Lead time Analysis (How to understand and improve lead times)

T009. FAB Analysis (How to make your product attractive to a potential customer)

T010. 2 Bin Systems (How to reduce the administration of low value items and thereby focus on the expensive ones)

T011. Three Strikes And You Are Out (How to drive low cost Supplier Development)

T012. Decision Tables (How to ensure that you have considered all the options)

T013. SWOT analysis (How to develop a development plan or business plan)

T014. Re-order Point Systems (How to replenish stocks from forecasts based on historic demand, and when to use this system)

T015. Replacement Systems (How to control the replacement of used items or spares, and when to use this system)

T016. Forecasting in low volume environments (overcoming the problems of forecast error)

T017. Loading boards (A simple technique for capacity planning and job tracking)

T018. Lot traceability / Disaster recovery (How to set up a system to support product recall, or recover from a disaster to a known point)

T019. Avoiding Set Ups and Reducing Changeover Times (SMED) (and thereby reducing batch sizes)

T020. Close Scheduling (reducing throughput time) (includes principles of scheduling and terms used)

T021. TAKT Time (measuring throughput time)

T022. Product Standardisation (longer term issues)

T023. Fair Shares method of Backordering (Buying Time to Solve the Shortage Problem)

T024. Agile Stock Rebuilding (Solving the Shortage Problem)

T025. Self Billing (Removing supplier payment administration)

T026. Product Strategy: Product Life Cycle Positioning (Which products to develop, promote, exploit or retire)

T027. Product or Computer Programme FMEA (What risks do your Products or Programmes present in failure)

T028. Paired Comparison (Differentiating your product & reducing product or service costs without losing customers, or comparing suppliers)

T029. Redundant Analysis (Making sure your analysis is correct)

T030. Impact Ease Analysis (Prioritising a potential list of things to do)

T031. Pig Analysis (Your product cost is not correct. This method tells you your unprofitable products)

T032. Capital Expenditure Appraisal (Are you spending your capital wisely?)

T033. Process or Service FMEA (What risks do your processes or services present in failure?)

T034. Testing Forecast Accuracy (How do you know if your new forecast is reliable?)

T035. Product Life Cycle Costing (Why you do not know what your product costs are & what to do to find out)

T036. Traffic Light or RAG System (A simple visible system for highlighting areas needing attention)

T037. FIFO (The only sensible scheduling and stock rotation rule)

T038. Bills of Materials Simplification

T039. Driving continuous improvement: 1. The Problem Board (Identifying, capturing and publicising hidden problems)

T040. Measuring MRP success or delinquency

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