About this Presentation
This presentation describes several related topics: The strategic approach to commitment to availability; replenish-to-availability - the assumptions behind the TOC technique; replenish without commitment to availability; dynamic buffer management (DBM) – advantages and limitations; managing clients that are not the end users; managing suppliers – the role of throughput value days (TVD); and the full picture of managing the supply chains.
What Will You Learn
To help you get the most value from this session, we’ve highlighted a few key points. These takeaways capture the main ideas and practical insights from the presentation, making it easier for you to review, reflect, and apply what you’ve learned.
Even abundant stock can fail to improve performance if it isn’t protecting the right flows — the session shows how sheer inventory isn’t the same as effective protection.
It reveals why treating all stock as “safety” leads to hidden drag on throughput — only properly buffer-sized and placed stock shields critical commitments without masking underlying problems.
The presentation illustrates how buffer penetration analysis turns stock levels into an early warning system, helping teams act before disruptions threaten delivery.
It emphasizes that changing stock behavior — from static inventory to dynamic protection — transforms how organizations manage variability, demand shifts, and supplier uncertainty.
Instructor(s)
Eli Schragenheim
Eli Schragenheim is a well-known international management educator, author and consultant active in various fields of management. He worked with a huge variety of organizations all over the world, including public-sector organizations, industrial, high-tech and start-ups. Since he had joined Dr. Eliyahu M. Goldratt, the famous creator of the Theory of Constraints (TOC) in 1985, Eli Schragenheim had taught, spoke at conferences, and consulted all over the globe. Eli Schragenheim is the author of several books on various aspects of management. His last book, Throughput Economics – Making Good Management Decisions, together with Henry Camp and Rocco Surace, was published in July 2019. Eli Schragenheim first book Management Dilemmas (1998) showed a variety of problematic situations in management and the rigorous analysis leading to the right solution. Next he collaborated with William H. Dettmer in writing Manufacturing at Warp Speed. In this book the new concept of Simplified-DBR, now a key concept in production planning according to TOC, was introduced. He collaborated with Carol A. Ptak on ERP, Tools, Techniques, and Applications for Integrating the Supply Chain, and with Dr. Goldratt and Carol Ptak on Necessary but Not Sufficient. In 2009 his book Supply Chain Management at Warp Speed, with William H. Dettmer and Wayne Patterson was published. In March 2015, Eli has opened a blog, now containing more than 140 articles on various topics in TOC that everybody can access.