Agile indexes and application of production planning (ID: 2-004)

The agility of production planning is defined as two characters: synchronization and flexibility. Measurement indexes for evaluating agility are then divided into two dimensions separately. Synchronization includes two horizontal indexes: order lead time ratio and demand fulfilling rate, two vertical indexes: instruction-reaction cycle time and resource matching rate. Flexibility includes five indexes: scope flexibility, delivery flexibility, variety flexibility, capacity buffer, inventory buffer and modification flexibility. Quantitative. formulas for each measurement indexes are constructed. One application is discussed at the end to illustrate the feasibility and reasonability of the indexes.