BalancedFlow™
Supply Chain Execution Concepts, Algorithms, Implementation Procedures, and Software

Clemson University has developed an unique and simple supply chain execution software named BalancedFlow. The goal of BalancedFlow is to maximize profits by multiplying revenue and minimizing costs across the entire supply chain for all participating partners. The goal is achieved through the three primary business objectives of eliminating stockouts at the end of the supply chain, minimizing the inventories across the supply chain, and minimizing manufacturing demand variations. The driving focus and primary measurement is the "cash to cash" throughput time and the ultimate limiting factor to achieving minimum throughput time changeover times on the bottleneck processes in the manufacturing and shipping sections of the supply chain. Throughput time is defined as the days required to convert money invested in inventory comming into the supply chain into new money through sales to the consumer at the end of the supply chain.

BalancedFlow™ is faster to implement with about 3 times more benefits than lean conversions within plants and it provides even greater results when applied to extended supply chains. Stock outs are essentially eliminated at the end of the supply chain, customer wait times and inventories are reduced by over 90 percent, and manufacturing costs are reduced by 5-20 percent. Achieving inventory balance, making the right items, and making the right items fast are the keys to these extraordinary results.