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Vol 26 - No 08 - October 2000 Demand Management and Stock Control in the Licensed Trade: is it too simple? When asked by the MD for potential projects which could be included in a multi-site, European based ‘best in class’ project, the opportunity to re-ignite an old flame which had been smouldering in the back of my mind for many years was re-kindled. Departmental Purpose Analysis (DPA), a process designed to eliminate non value adding activities and reposition tasks and activities which are being performed by individuals not best positioned to perform those tasks. This was a theory about which I had read many years ago and one that I had always thought proposed a very logical and sensible approach to improving the efficiency and effectiveness of an operation and yet had failed to get the recognition as other improvement processes such as BPR... Page number: Page: 20 Word count: Words: 1500 Related Topics: Demand management Inventory management
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