The Implementation Of Product Control System To Paper Flow Supply Chain Of Kodak Haicang Site

This is a research on Product Control System (PCS) implementation in supply chain and how it can affect the supply chain performance. The research is organized as a case study to Paper Product Flow of Kodak Haicang Industrial Park with an attempt to explore the opportunities in optimizing supply chain inventory and delivering performance in the typical companies, who are facing problems including big manufacturing lot size, long lead time, variable customer order, inaccurate forecast and etc.The research is conducted in a systematic way and can be divided into 4 parts:The 1st part is an introduction to the background and current status; problems are explored and summarized after the introduction, so does the improving direction.The 2nd part is focused on system improvement setting, starting from the discussion of finished goods control strategy, continued by the analysis of the impact of different inventory control strategies to the supply chain through introducing Components of Inventory, the method of identifying root causes of inventory in supply chain. The PCS setup including Heijunka and Pull are then elaborated to explain the improvement method.In the third part, analysis is conducted to the paper product flow supply chain from information and material points of view to explore the root causes of the current problems, and then study the implementation of PCS to minimize the variation and achieve optimization in the supply chain. EXCEL files and drawings are utilized to simulate the process improvements to access the impact quantitatively.The last part comes to a general conclusion on the PCS implementation from waste, process simplification and stabilization points of view. Future improvement opportunities are also discussed.