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In this paper we present an approach for identifying problems in the managerial principles of supply chains. The approach is especially designed for analysing export deliveries in process industry. The key idea of the approach is to divide the logistic chain into major steps, measure the time variability at each step and to focus on the slow moving deliveries. The approach was tested at three paper mills and three paper board mills. The results showed that the approach is very powerful in identifying concrete logistics problems, which could be generalised in major problem areas. The analyses also showed the huge saving potentials that could be achieved by cutting the “tails” of the time distribution in material flow.
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Tanskanen, K., Hameri, AP. (1998). The role of time variability in supply chains — a multiple case study. In: Bititci, U.S., Carrie, A.S. (eds) Strategic Management of the Manufacturing Value Chain. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35321-0_37
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