One of my customers use to tell me “it’s all about the part”.
I didn’t understand what he was talking about for the longest time but I think I am starting to understand it. In terms of the supply chain, when the end-user is on the factory floor, assembling the product his company sells, his world revolves around one phrase, “it’s all about the part”.
Manufacturing is all about the part.
It’s about having the right part at the right place at the right time.
If you are strictly looking within the walls of your company without getting your suppliers involved your missing the part, I mean point.
If you have preformed 5S on your factory floor and your production is the epitome of lean manufacturing and you have 6 Sigma-ed 98.6% of the defects right out of your facility, it still doesn’t mean diddly if the supply chain fails and the part isn’t in the right place at the right time.
“It’s all about the part.”
