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What else is happening during that change?
The yarn for the new run may have been purchased in cone counts rather than the precise lengths required.
That can leave residual yarn and partial cones after the job. More yarn may need to be held in inventory to provide the flexibility required for future production. A yarn-placement error can also create waste, rework and further lost machine time.
Each cost may sit in a different part of the business:
- Purchasing sees the yarn expenditure
- Production sees the downtime
- Operations sees the labour
- Quality sees the waste and rework
- Finance sees the inventory and working capital
