2022 TOCICO International Conference

Near Death Experience to Ever Flourishing – A Journey of Jindal Steel and Power

The presentation details JSP's approach to excellence, highlighting how a change in thinking (TOC approach) and shifting constraints helped overcome tough times. It covers critical success factors, financial outcomes, and partner testimonials.

Assumption Hacking: A TOC Thinking Masterclass

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Assumption Hacking is a critical skill for: solving problems, eliminating conflicts, learning from mistakes, understanding others, and understanding ourselves.

Retail Myths – A Hands-on Workshop

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The workshop will investigate myths in the retail environment across four categories: stockouts, surpluses, time, and technology. It will show how to replace these damaging modes of operation with reality using the Theory of Constraints (TOC).

A Myth Busting Masterclass on Project Flow

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Attendees will learn through thought experiments and simulations.

TOC Operational Solutions - Closing the Gap Between Theory and Practice

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TOC solutions require adjustments upon implementation, as practical application has evolved beyond the formal BOK. The presentation will discuss the up-to-date theoretical configuration and demonstrate what adjustments are needed.

The New 7 Questions for Technology (7QT): And the Search for Hidden TOC Treasure

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Eli Goldratt’s business novel Necessary But Not Sufficient [2000] contains a hidden treasure: The 6QNT. The summary poses a question as to why this concept is not better known or more widely used.

The Productivity Challenges and Opportunities in Global Supply Chain

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The global logistics industry is hampered by outdated work practices, regulatory inertia, and a focus on margins. Improving productivity in global supply chains requires careful planning, innovation, and massive worldwide effort.

How Large Corporates Can Implement Change Effectively

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BAE Systems Australia implemented Critical Chain in their Lead-In Fighter program in 2014, boosting on-time delivery from 40% to 100%. This success led to embedding a Systems-Based Way of Working for sustained delivery reputation.

The TOC Solution to Warehousing

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Warehouse Strategy and Tactics Tree enables clients to deliver over 20% more sales without adding people or space, by building robust processes, systems, and implementing Constraint Obsession and Specialization.

Learning from Failure and various Giants. TOC & CCPM is necessary but not sufficient for Product & Service Development project

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Kaoru shares lessons from failed attempts to use CCPM for SOFT Product & Service Development projects. He illustrates SOFT project nature and difficulties, providing essential knowledge from 50+ projects to overcome obstacles and achieve success.

What to Invest in Technology or Benefits? - How an ATV Master Distributor Reimagined its Supply Chain

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An ATV master distributor faced unprecedented demand due to the pandemic. They overcame the challenge of needing new SCM software and IT personnel by adopting the DDR Material Data Feed outsourcing service from CMS Montera in 2022.

Beyond Critical Chain

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CCPM has evolved into a fuller business solution, addressing initial limitations like cost omission and rigor. Leveraging AI and Big Data, it offers real-time intelligence at all levels, but its wider adoption is still constrained.

Not Your Grandad Jonah’s TP Tools

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The TOC community wonders why TOC adoption isn't greater worldwide. The author wonders why TP tools aren't used more in the TOC community. While useful, TP tools lack usability and are underused, being too academic for practitioners.

It's Not Complicated - Essentials: Successfully Schedule and Deliver a Portfolio of Complex Routings or Projects

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This presentation covers essential elements for planning, scheduling, executing, and analyzing project portfolios. It emphasizes simplicity, knowledge transfer, and synchronizing technology, metrics, and SOPs to stabilize chaos and drive growth.

More Projects in Less Time

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CCPM gains are often compromised by not fully implementing necessary paradigm shifts. Common mistakes include partial WIP reduction, fixing too many deadlines, over-planning, and tendency to compromise. Solutions to maximize benefits will be shown.

Buffer Management in Context: Managing and Reducing Instability

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The presentation explores Eli Goldratt's 4 concepts of flow, encompassing lean and TOC thinking, emphasizing abolishing local efficiency. It illustrates using system-based tools and aggregated buffers to manage variability and uncertainty.

No Shortages Even in Volatile Demand Scenarios

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DBM protects product availability. Current DBM practices are being revised using AI/ML to predict short-term demand for daily buffer resets. This has resulted in smoother supplies, better availability, and less inventory.

Developing Superhero People Who Have Winning Mindsets, Long-Term Commitment and Always do Their Best Work

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Jarrod used Theory of Constraints (TOC) principles to build 3 self-help tools: Life Direction Analysis (goal setting), Aptitude Analysis (finding strengths), and the Mindset Feedback Loop (developing confidence and a positive outlook).

Eight Uncomfortable Truths

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An industrial organization's outdated customer interface requires a complete rethink of sales, engineering, and distribution. Transforming around 8 truths will open an unassailable lead on competitors.

An Introduction to the Demand Driven Adaptive Enterprise Model

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Workshop introduces the Demand Driven Adaptive Enterprise (DDAE) Model, a new management framework that enables a flow-based system, combining flow management principles with complex adaptive systems science for business adaptation.

Implementing TOC at Scale, with Partners

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To implement TOC at scale in Logistics, 'TOC at the Speed of Light' creates customized plans across the industry. These are executed via standardized 'Atomic Changes' that produce rapid, stable, and measurable outcomes.

TOC for Global Optimization in Engineering Resource

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Embraer's Inter BU project optimizes engineering resources using TOC and a two-front strategy: Front 1 focuses on meeting OTD of resource-constrained projects via CCPM; Front 2 addresses business demands with Thinking Process workshops.

Goal Alignment: Realizing the Potential of TOC

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The Theory of Change (TOC) links local actions to a global goal, suggesting individual efforts can significantly impact this goal. Each person can make a difference in building a future free of shortages.

Strengthening Democracy with Constraints Management

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This presentation shows how public administration, business management, and the Theory of Constraints (TOC) can help governments consistently produce quality public value, bridging the gap between TOC and public management concepts.

Difference Between KAIZEN and Improvement to Realize On Going

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Dr. Goldratt integrated POOGI into TOC, influenced by Ohno's Toyota Production System (TPS). Satoru Murakami compares Japanese KAIZEN, based on TPS's three realism, with general improvement, favoring process evaluation over results.

A Future with No Missing Skills

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The Demand Driven Skills Model (DDSM) is a visual, systemic approach using 5 components and a Multiskills Matrix to manage employee skills based on demand, identifying skill gaps, prioritizing training, and supporting innovation.

Quality Control is Often the Bottleneck in Operations

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QC is often an unrecognized bottleneck in over half of organizations due to increasing complexity of controls and difficulty managing performance. This is unhealthy but fixable, leading to extraordinary impact on company performance.

Creating Stable and Predictable Operations with a Demand Driven Operating Model

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DDOM stabilizes supply chains by using actual demand, strategic decoupling points to absorb variability, operational control points for scheduling, and dynamic buffers for protection, ensuring high customer service & short lead times.

Current and Future Reality at the Speed of Light

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"TOC at The Speed of Light" uses pre-configured BOK Druids to rapidly analyze a company's current reality and design a transition to a better future reality in one day, optimizing TOC expertise. WiseTech Global uses this to transform acquisitions.

Community Regeneration: Shifting South Auckland to a Future with No Shortages

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A NZ NGO (TCC) uses Theory of Constraints (TOC) to combat poor health in South Auckland's Māori and Pacific communities. Successes include using cause-and-effect language, but applying TOC to an open social system presents challenges.

Peter B. Noonan Memorial Lecture: Math vs Physics of Flow

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Theory of Constraints (TOC) is a powerful methodology using counterintuitive solutions based on the physics of flow, such as allowing idle time to boost throughput and halting work to expedite projects. This was a Memorial Lecture.

The TOC Core Processes - Clearing Confusions, Interdependencies and Effective Application

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The focusing process and POOGI, core TOC concepts, are often confused and misused, lacking clarity on their interdependency. This presentation aims to clarify frequent confusions regarding these critical processes.

The Measurement Nightmare Solved with Throughput Economics Approach

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The presentation shows how to evaluate management decisions using Throughput Economics and an integrated S&OP view based on optimistic/conservative T, I, and OE measurements. It stresses preserving protective capacity and portfolio evaluation.

Comprehensive Management

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Organizations struggle with global effects of local actions. Humberto presents Comprehensive Management, a solution integrating departments for global clarity. It addresses six foundations: Decisions, Finance, Flow, Capacity, Protection, and Value.

Innovative Education for a World with Sustainable Future

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This non-profit integrates Eli Goldratt's TOCfE materials into a transformational learning package meeting Brazil's new education mandates, aiming for higher graduation and students prepared for life's problems with a win-win mindset.

Use of TOC Concepts in Neogrid Solutions

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Neogrid uses two key TOC concepts: Dynamic Buffer Management (DBM), which adjusts inventory buffers based on demand, and Mafia Offer, which analyzes performance using indicators like TVD and IVD for monitoring retailer gains.

When Picking is the Constraint

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To reduce inventory, the conflict between reducing Order Lead Time and maintaining pickings must be resolved. The presentation details how to reduce inventory, keep pickings stable, increase adherence, and use an algorithm for store transfers.