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Quick Response Manufacturing

John Deere was experiencing rapid demand growth for its forestry and construction equipment due to an increasing golf course market. This put pressure on John Deere to rely more heavily on just-in-time manufacturing with suppliers. To meet demand while maintaining quality and reducing costs, John Deere implemented a Quick Response Manufacturing strategy across its operations to cut lead times and be more responsive to customers. This approach provided benefits like reduced lead times, decreased costs, increased market share and quality improvements.

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Quick Response Manufacturing

John Deere was experiencing rapid demand growth for its forestry and construction equipment due to an increasing golf course market. This put pressure on John Deere to rely more heavily on just-in-time manufacturing with suppliers. To meet demand while maintaining quality and reducing costs, John Deere implemented a Quick Response Manufacturing strategy across its operations to cut lead times and be more responsive to customers. This approach provided benefits like reduced lead times, decreased costs, increased market share and quality improvements.

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Quick Response

Manufacturing Drives Supplier


Development At John Deere

QASIM ALI
Introduction
John Deere is the world's leading manufacturer
of forestry equipment and is a major
manufacturer of construction equipment in North
America.
Their business was boosting at a rapid pace due
to the upward trend in demand for golf course.
John Deere is relying on JIT, which leads to a
great pressure on its suppliers.
Fisher Barton Group was supplier providing lawn
mower blade manufacturing, bed knives, disk
mower blades and corn stalk blade
manufacturing.
John Deere
How To Deal With The Demand ?

Answer:
Quick response
Manufacturing
QRM
Quick Response Manufacturing
(QRM) is a companywide strategy to
cut lead times in all phases of
manufacturing and office operations.

Open new doors for those who can


get products to market before the
competition, and success hinges on
the ability to respond quickly.
Cont..
Increase profitability by reducing non–value added
time, cutting inventory and increasing return on
investment.
The ultimate tool for improvement is to use the
data from Process Maps within the Customer
Chain Improvement Process to implement Quick
Response Manufacturing (QRM).

It can bring your products to market more quickly


and secure your business prospects by helping
you compete in a rapidly changing manufacturing
arena.
Benefits for John Deere
Reduced lead time.
Decreased manufacturing costs.
Increased market share.
Customer orders fulfillment.
Boosted product quality.
Eliminated wastage and inefficiency.
Entertained High degree of customization.
Gained Core Competency.
Achieving L-term success.
THANK YOU!

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