From 30% to 90% On-Time Delivery
Late deliveries are not a shop floor problem — they are a scheduling problem. When your schedule reflects real capacity, your promises become achievable. GE Railcar Services tripled on-time shipping with one change: finite capacity scheduling.
30→90%
On-time shipping
GE Railcar
2 Weeks
Lead time reduction
Technical Glass
4%
Capacity increase
Technical Glass
Increased
Customer satisfaction
Cummins Engine
The Real Cause of Late Deliveries
Late deliveries are almost never caused by lazy workers or bad machines. They are caused by unrealistic schedules. When your system schedules to infinite capacity, it promises dates that your shop floor cannot achieve — creating a cycle of expediting, overtime, and disappointed customers.
- Infinite capacity scheduling produces unachievable delivery dates
- Overbooking workcenters creates cascading delays across all jobs
- No visibility into bottlenecks until production is already late
- Firefighting and expediting consume resources that should be producing
- Customer trust eroding from repeated missed promise dates
- Lead times inflating as buffers are added to cover scheduling failures
How RMDB Fixes On-Time Delivery
RMDB attacks the root cause: unrealistic scheduling. By scheduling to finite capacity — machines, labor, materials, and tooling simultaneously — it produces promise dates your shop floor can actually hit. Bottlenecks are identified before they delay shipments. Overbooking is eliminated. Your team shifts from firefighting to executing.
- Finite capacity scheduling eliminates overbooking
- Realistic promise dates based on actual resource availability
- Bottleneck identification before they impact delivery
- Workcenter capacity tracking and level loading
- What-if analysis before accepting new commitments
- Downtime analysis and reporting for root cause identification
- Lead time reduction through schedule optimization
- Cycle time improvement through process visibility
- Reduced aged inventory through better schedule accuracy
- Customer satisfaction through reliable promise dates
“Over the past several years, RMDB has successfully helped our repair network to improve the Shipping On-Time accuracy from 30% to over 90%. Additionally, we have improved our overall shop cycle time by several days.”
Dan Barich, Manager of Process Engineering
GE Railcar Services
“Setting accurate customer expectations has been the greatest benefit. We are able to track problem areas and get good feedback on potential bottlenecks before they happen.”
Shavonna Portue, Director
GEMS Healthcare Solutions
On-Time Delivery Improvements
30→90%
On-time shipping tripled across all repair shops
GE Railcar Services
2 Weeks
Lead time shaved off deliverables while growing 4%
Technical Glass Products
Improved
On-time delivery through better schedule modeling
ACE Controls
Increased
Customer satisfaction from realistic promise dates
Cummins Engine
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