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Most companies know they have too many SKUs. What they don't know is how much the complexity behind each one is costing them — in inventory, in capacity, in decision time. Here is how to find the real number and what to do with it.
Friedrich Stahl
Partner, Supply Chain · Berg Partners
OEE is the most widely used metric in manufacturing. It is also widely misunderstood, selectively reported, and almost never used to make the decisions it was designed for.
Most digital transformations fail at the same point. Not selection. Not implementation. Adoption. Here is why — and how to design around it from the start.
If your senior leadership team is spending more than 30% of their time on decisions that should not reach them, your structure is broken — not your people.
Most industrial companies look for growth in the wrong places — too far from their core. Adjacency mapping is a disciplined way to find what is already within reach and worth claiming.
Every company that went through 2020–2022 came out with the same resolution: dual-source everything. Three years later, most have not done it. Here is why — and what actually works.
Most improvement programmes solve the wrong thing. They address symptoms — visible, urgent, politically safe — while the real constraint sits untouched and limits everything else.
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