Short Orders Avoidance using a Lean Manufacturing Approach

In this article, you will learn what is short order and how to avoid them using lean manufacturing techniques and six sigma tools.

Short Orders Definition

Short orders are defined as customer product orders confirmed between the manufacturer and the client, but which cannot be manufactured on time or as scheduled due to one or more components materials not available on hand.

A short order occurs when you receive a number of items below the number you ordered.

It results in delayed customer deliveries since you cannot complete the manufacturing process due to a lack of components or parts necessary.

A short order could result that not all customer orders could be fulfilled.

If you receive a short order, the number of items you receive is below the number you ordered.

It is considered a type of hold order and wastes undesired by every manufacturer.

6 Factors That Trigger Short Orders

In addition, the following 6 factors can trigger many short orders:

1. 1. Having standing inventory (wasting space and resources).
   2. Making unusable by-products.
   3. Spreading out your workstations too much, increasing the travel time between them.
   4. Production queues backing up due to bottlenecks.
   5. Too many workers being assigned to a limited task.
   6. Lacking process automation where it can be used.

10 Key Elements to Reduce and Avoid Short Orders.

Preventing short orders is not easy and requires the implementation of several lean manufacturing techniques, such as:

1. 1. Eliminate waste
   2. Kaizen (continuous improvement)
   3. Respect human elements
   4. Heijunka (level production)
   5. JIT (Just In Time) production
   6. One-piece flow
   7. Quality built-in
   8. Poka-Yoke (mistake proofing)
   9. Jidoka (detecting defects through automation)
   10. Improve the lean manufacturing cycles

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REFERENCES: Short Orders.

httpss://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_Six_Sigma

httpss://www.greycampus.com/blog/quality-management/a-brief-introduction-to-lean-and-six-sigma-and-lean-six-sigma

httpss://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/short-order