What is it about?
Through this article, we tried to provide answers to a set of questions related to Work In Process management raised more and more often by today's manufacturers, especially the ones operating in the automotive industry. The stock accuracy is one of the biggest concerns for all industrial companies' departments. In fact, stock integrity level is reflecting both financial and operational healths for a given entity. However, if reaching an integrity score of 100% for the WIP seems utopic, it is possible for manufacturers to reach an acceptable level of stock accuracy (above 85%). In this article, we conducted a case study inside a multinational company specialized in the wiring harness production for the automotive market. Our scope was to identify and raise the main causes of WIP inaccuracy in order to help manufacturers finding suitable solutions for their own specific cases.
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Why is it important?
The subject in the core of this article is based on an actual study (conducted in 2016). Data is actualized and pertinent. As well, the theme of our paper is touching a strategic field in several countries among the world (Automotive industry). The results of our study are reflecting the most common WIP inaccuracy causes that can be found in the automotive field.
Perspectives
This work should be only the begining for future publications dealing with the specificities of the automotive industry. Several articles and books already approached a certain number of issues related to the industry in general, but only some of them raised specific points that we can only find in the automotive manufacturing.
Faris Al Barrak
National School of Management of Tangier - Abdelmalek Essaâdi University
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This page is a summary of: Work In Process stock integrity in the automotive industry, Production & Manufacturing Research, January 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/21693277.2017.1322543.
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