Dr. Michael Phelan
DePuy Synthes (Johnson & Johnson) Business Technology Leader
Dublin
Talk: Lean Analytics across the Supply Chain
Employing the standard reports available from the existing systems to answer specific questions. The central concept here is to apply Lean Thinking to the “data” produced by SC processes. If using the same reports across the Supply Chain (SC), “clean them once” & “use them many” times. Lean analytics also provides an approach to ask SMART questions, similarly to A3 problem solving where complex questions can be decomposed into smaller “binary” questions (i.e., the question has a discrete answer / success outcome). Applying a Lean Analytics approach encourages users to view the “output” from one process as an “input” to another process. By standardising the inputs & outputs, data can be used across many potential SC use cases. Example use cases include: (A) Capacity Planning Optimisation to automate the Rough Cut Capacity Planning process, (B) MES KPI to calculate Lead Time & Scrap Rate by SKU / Product Family employing an SPC style visualisation and (C) Production Schedule Optimisation, providing the best production schedule to deliver the RCCP plan every month.
Biography:
Dr. Michael Phelan has been working in Supply Chain Analytics for over 15 years, with a Masters in Management Science and a PhD in Supply Chain Optimisation from the Smurfit Graduate Business School, University College Dublin. During that time he published in several international peer reviewed journals and books and presented at international conferences in USA, Europe & Asia. He has lectured masters & undergraduate students in analytics and supervised award-winning masters supply chain projects.
Michael also has extensive experience in industry working & consulting for large scale multinationals in electronics and medical device sectors in demand & business planning, analytics and IT. Prior to joining DePuy Synthes, he led a multi-million-dollar technology transformation program for the TSC Group (ANZ) aimed at re-establishing the business post a troubled receivership period. This successful transformation led to the acquisition of the group by Engie, one of the world’s leading energy providers and was one of the keynote events at the FSM 2015 conference in Sydney.
He joined DePuy Synthes (medical device companies of Johnson & Johnson) in 2015 as IT & Analytics Manager and is currently leading the Supply Chain IT Data Science Group developing a team of data scientists, employing diagnostic & advanced analytics to supply chain problem solving. Michael has presented at several international conferences on supply chain optimisation and sits on university and Irish government groups aimed at promoting supply chain digitalisation and optimisation.