Inventory manufacturing push system

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Manufacturing usually pushes inventory to its distribution centers based on manufacturing economics and not on forecasted consumer demand. The push system is a relic of those industries still mired in the concept that efficiency derives from highly effective manufacturing processes and not from meeting the needs of actual demand (McClellan, 2003, p. 26). 

A push process conforms to a conventional supply chain management system going through typical stages in sequence. As shown in Figure 3.2, orders arrive at or after the demand cycle but always before the planning and procurement cycle and process is activated by a forecast or demand plan. Both raw and packaging materials are stored before production and products are manufactured to stock. The order fulfilment is achieved from the inventory of finished products. 

Navas, Deb, Manufacturing Shifts from Push to Pull Shifting to Demand-based Manufacturing Decreases Inventories and Provides Companies with a Competitive Edge, Supply Chain Systems, June 2005, pp. J8-24. 

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