This last step would recreate the entire supply chain to improve its performance even further, primarily in the areas of manufacturing, procurement, distribution, and raw materials flow. The balanced flow concept provides the over-arching measurements for, but does not redesign the supply chain or its individual processes. The entire system is operating today at a velocity of well under 1 inventory turn per year. The complete cycle of ordering, manufacturing, distributing, and issuing could be completed in less than 8 weeks or 6.5 inventory turns if constraint management and reengineering is applied to every process. DPSC provides wholesale inventories and contractors weekly contractual production capacities.
Contractors provide production lead-times and inventory status.
In turn, forecasting and stocking finished-goods can be minimized while maintaining level production. Contractors need no automation other than Web access. Jackson and Parris Island. CAR manufactures one style shirt for each location.