English translation of "Perlenketten- oder Pull-Steuerung" - "pearl chain or pull control"

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183 months ago

tigkit asked this question:

Language pair:	German > English
Subject:	Business / Marketing / Financial
Level of diffculty:	Difficult / demanding
Word or term in question:	Perlenketten- oder Pull-Steuerung
Context:	Perlenketten- oder Pull-Steuerung gehören fortlaufend zu den Aufgaben
Keywords:	logistics

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183 months ago

Robert Tucker wrote:

pearl chain or pull control

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... several automakers have introduced stable production control systems (PCS), often referred to as a pearl chain in which...
www.scm.ethz.ch/publications/Academic_publications/Wagner_Silveira-Camargos_InPress_Managing_risks_in_just-in-sequence_supply_networks.pdf

In this version the trigger for the delivery instruction is the sequence of vehicles
on the production line (often referred to as pearl chain).
https://forum.odette.org/publications/executive-summaries/edi-messages-edifact-and-xml/Global%2520DELJIT%2520Executive%2520Summary.pdf

... pull production is a process that aims to arrange an organization so that customer preference or orders are what cause materials to be "pulled" through a system. The idea is that the manufacturer only produces what the consumer wants when the consumer wants them.
http://hubpages.com/hub/Pull-Production-Kanban

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