Author : Sanket Kedar, Samata Mujumdar, Savita Shinde and Pratik Badhan

Lead time reduction is an essential part of lean manufacturing as in product companies the lead time of manufacturing is the dormancy between initiation and accomplishment of a process. Working according to the lead time of the product company to produce optimum amount of products is difficult because of various reasons; one of them is shortages of required material. The shortages of material causes problems like pausing the assembly line, over time for completing the work on time after procurement of material to match the lead time, use of proprietary items without test certificates, problems in work of in process quality department etc., which are commonly faced by product companies, specially the companies implementing customized product assembly. The shortage of material will definitely lead to practices which are deviated from the ideal process flow and will affect the companies’ efficiency to deliver the product on time. The errors caused due to shortages can be eliminated to a great extent by studying the reasons and its implications on assembly and in process quality department of a company which will definitely help in achieving optimum efficiency of delivering product on time to the customer.

Keywords: BOM mismatch, material shortages, lead time, Product Company and vendor management.