Manufacturing: Push or Pull? - Whiteboard Wednesday

Learn more at: www.fishbowlinv.... Push or pull? It's a fundamental question for manufacturers. Pushing is a manufacturing method that emphasizes storing a lot of products in order to have them ready to push to customers at a moment's notice. This results in high carrying costs and potentially more unusable inventory as it passes its expiration date.
Pulling is more efficient than pushing. It emphasizes JIT (Just In Time) shipping and only ordering parts and products when customer orders come in. This cuts down on carrying costs and leads to a more streamlined operation. It is slower than the push method, so there is a trade-off.
Fishbowl's Whiteboard Wednesday videos break down important inventory management topics in a couple of minutes. Fishbowl is the producers of the No. 1 manufacturing and warehouse management software for QuickBooks users.

[@crimsonhawk467]

3 hours of textbook reading all within several minutes.... Thank you!

[@lawrenceamos3316]

That was fantastic, you made it very simple. You're the 4th person I listen to on the same topic. The first 3 were so technical in their presentation that nearly made me feel that this my assignment is too technical. After listening to yours, it has given me the idea as to how to start answering my assignments. Thank you so much. 👍👍👍

[@greentea0956]

Bless you. My professor made this make absolutely no sense. He just reads from the board and assumes people know what he’s saying. Thank you!

[@bartdemaegdt]

Make to stock = Push
Make to order = Pull
Keeping things simple ;-)

[@jzk2020]

Saved me 4 min.

[@alirezaa6530]

Simple but not correct, Pull is Limiting the WIP (Work in Progress), you can check this article to understand more: "To Pull or Not to Pull: What Is the Question?" by Wallace J. Hopp, Mark L. Spearman,.

[@katiannadanger17]

Very simple!!

[@RandomRads]

Are you telling me that Pull is not possible in Make To Stock scenario?

[@ozai1236]

@@RandomRads No. He just simplify the video

[@vanessacasanova0920]

James you have more than 25 people watching! lol thanks for your explanation.. Super simple and helpful!

[@tahrinouri8666]

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[@EllieOK]

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[@rinreborn7364]

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[@louisbelgrama3056]

Car industries apply both of the flow types, from up stream to the production process they use the push flow, and from the other half of the production process they use pull flow.
And based on demand forecasting the first half of the supply chain will produce only the components that we can find in any car (modular pieces) like car wheels ; and the down stream half of the Supply chain production process will be based on the customer order (car color, type of glass,..etc).
In the current industries both of the flows are applied simultaneously.
You can generalize the idea on the fast food industries (McDonald's, Pizza hut, etc) where all the ingredients are stored in wanrehouses wating for each restaurant demand which is based on the customers type of order.

[@mrittickabaidya6602]

I’m just rewatching it because it’s fun. I can read books but nah, this is way more fun. If you’d made more videos supply chain management, I wouldn’t have hated the subject oh so much! Lots of love to you, btw.

[@hellotaylorowen]

This is one of the best videos that explains the difference between push vs pull. Thank you!

[@kloeram8513]

You're 25 ppl just became 26 .. thanks for the simple effective explain of pull & puch systems

[@k_davidenko]

Thanks for the examples! it got me thinking on the work processes we have.

[@Maney3316]

Good humor make anything understandable. Thank you

[@stevenfreeman106]

Great drawing!

[@saeedbasabain4188]

Thanks

[@bvtn6874]

Great Video, simple but gets the point across 👍

[@Slothlodge]

Pull also creates alot longer lead times... Customer will have to wait through manufacturing instead of JIT ready products.

[@TheTrace8]

Thanks! Loved it! :) I think I'm well more than the 26th person to watch this. :)

[@davidmanzat]

best explanation on this topic! thank you!!

[@sylvest1001]

Brilliant video explanation - I am a big fan of MTO production strategy even for replenishment orders in a MTS materials management environment.

[@marcfotso7903]

James you are awesome person
many waists on Push
customer demand on Pull
Thanks James

[@tired_brickmason34]

I'm taking a class on this right now and what you explained in those 3 minutes would've been like 20 minutes of excruciating reading. thanks,

[@leahrox12]

James is a legend

[@Alwaysziv]

Thanking the 25 that watch in the first 15 seconds? I'm all in bc of his humor.

[@accounttreehouse8202]

Thanks for this very clear and concise explanation of push v pull

[@joshuacham9133]

quite simple explanation. Kudos

[@barryparcx4853]

Basic theory, but then please add another 4 minutes to your Whiteboard Wednesdays demonstrating how you implement each of this in FB.

[@terrakorp4291]

Hi FishBowl.. thanks much for this lesson

[@kineh2016]

This is really helpful!

[@alimertozturk2258]

it was perfectly helpful!!! Thanks.

[@BlackRams]

thank you

[@abbeyjohnson5618]

This incredibly helpful! Thank you!!

[@556to762]

push works when you cannot maintain an effective communication channel to the front all the time or at all. you have to remember there is also a high cost to maintain an effective communication channel. its not more efficient, its just suitable in different situation. imagine there is a nuclear war or you enemy can jam you coms better then you can transmit, in pull logistic, the only way to get supplies is to physically send someone to the "vendor"(of the left of chart) to ask for it in person.
also when you need to obtain product in short notice or with no notice, pull logistic you need to wait for the request to be filed and processed, then it will get made. there is a better chance of getting ugrent equipment if they are in push logistic because the product is costantly on its way anyways. regardless of you asking for it or not.

[@jesstinemaesoriano8707]

omo, highly helpful video!!

[@bhukya18]

EXCELLENT.

[@pankajbhalerao1312]

Why no use a combination of Push and Pull together ??

[@user-mx5we1li2l]

Good short explanation. Thank you.

[@abhilashpaul9237]

Useful.

[@panteraleo4540]

impressive

[@bforshay]

I would not agree that you need automation. One of the very important foundations of lean is VISUAL management. You CAN automate but it is not a requirement and VISUAL actually costs a lot less. There is no requirement to have ERP doing anything other than the backflush to consume the materials as they are consumed from WIP. It might also be good to talk about the effect of Bullwhip based on forecast in contrast to replenishment supplies. PUL based on make it now is MTO. More often, especially in a distribution network, it is to REPLACE what just was sold. So your PULL is not making product for that ORDER. It is making product to replace what that last order consumed, hence the quantities are tightly alogned to actual consumption, instead of the forecast that will "eventually" get sold..

[@IsraelLopezConsulting]

Yep still watching James.

[@MrittickaBaidya]

I loved the video and the jokes 🤣

[@AdamKwitko]

Thank you! James! Very clear and strait to the point!

[@tuyetscheler6244]

Thanks a lot. Very helpful video!!!

[@harikrishnaradadiya421]

Wow.... amazing!!! Keep posting such great videos.....

[@Nathasla]

Wow, best explanation ! Thanks a lot!

[@doomtomb3]

I can say working in Pull manufacturing is shitty experience. The command center is always guessing and changing order amount, especially when our manufacturing process takes two months.

[@chrischen6664]

Thank you for the vids!

[@sallyk2431]

really good explanation

[@RamPMonyPers]

Does that mean that the product can be customized in the pull process?

[@Irowthe1x]

It can be. Build to order mass customization is very common.

[@renierventer4442]

Thank for your videos James :D it helps so much!

[@liqinghuang4134]

Thanks. It's really clear.

[@halbvampir07forever]

Very helpful, thank you!

[@iLikeMyOwnPosts]

144,000 views from 25 viewers is pretty wild!

[@dentallabby]

Thank you

[@shivakkumargeethavenkatesan]

very nice one. good explanation

[@akka3555]

Hai James, which system was more effective during covid lockdown.

[@atalqattan87]

Thanks alot

[@saeedalqaydi537]

very help full

[@sainathreddypailla7245]

Then What is the difference between JIT and pull systems?

[@AfterbrunchDelight]

Thanks for the information! :)

[@ramonnavarrobarcelo4494]

Thanks!!!!

[@z3w3n]

this is good , thank you so much

[@ismailshaikh1741]

Helpful

[@mariemlassoued1998]

pretty helpful

[@ARMOBILES_TAMBARAM]

thank u bro

[@556to762]

you said a lot of down side of push and a lot of up side of pull. can you talk about more of the up side of push?

[@davidsavage519]

You remind me of this actor named Tom Lipenski.

[@Anne-lg9xc]

Thank you! You are a bit distracting tho lol.

[@uyangaganbaatar6055]

your presence of cuteness is bit disturbing to focus ... :)

[@txpatriot7044]

26
Didn't really cover the positive side of the push. Not as sexy as 'pull' I guess.
Next time you get a flat tire and need to get a new one the same day....thank push supply chains "thank you push supply chain management' You saved me again while pull is just sitting there doing nothing waiting for my order. LOL :)

[@utkuaslan2160]

:D

[@hollister2320]

Well, seeing how Russian logistics is faring in Ukraine, with their 50km convoy, we can see which is SIGNIFICANTLY superior 😂Slava Ukraini and god bless America🇺🇸🇺🇦

[@adamruck]

Ah yes another MBA style presentation with absolutely no understanding of how the real world works. Nice job completely missing the fact that having warehouse space with inventory is a huge advantage in the case of unforeseen interruptions in the process. I've spent my whole life working in manufacturing and seen many times the consequences of having no inventory and no stock. Absolutely clowns.

[@priyankavij5191]

Thank you

[@tanya.4297]

Thank you