# Big rapids

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Meeting date | @April 16, 2019
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Dave Account manager of big rapids products. 5 years in this domain, quality engineering and sales. Chris: sales

Reliable forecasts? We do. Typically they have been pretty good except recently. Where we received the schedule agreement very late. But the most part it was reliable. In the beginning of the year, it took 3 to 4 weeks to receive the PO and it started the year behind the schedule.

Get raw materials from France.

How did you cope with that? Once we have the schedule, we produce and nurture the raw materials involved.

You produced on demand? We produced based on releases. 10 week to get them here to produce these parts. Then we produce according to the forecasts.

20% more produced than what we sell.

Some companies change their forecasts.

Do you have stocks in your plant? We have a small inventory here. But because of some mistake at the beginning of the year we have more.

Do you sell the same product to other customer? not those specific component. Some similar product but not the same.

What do you do with the extra product? We just hold it in the inventory here till we ship it for the next.

Do you have waste?

Do you have a supply chain department taking care of this? We have a scheduler that works directly with st gobain.

Objectif? We try to limit our inventory. There is not much over production.

Do you think with viz on customer it will be better?

Do you have visibility on the customer of your customer?

System called PLEX.