Field notes from the plant floor.
Short essays on cash, constraints, and consequential trade-offs. Written for operators, not for other consultants.
Cash Flow Above All: Why Revenue Without Velocity is Risk
Order books and revenue growth look good on a board pack — until you realise the cash never showed up. A short essay on why cash velocity, not revenue, is the true measure of an industrial P&L.
The One Constraint: Why Improving Everything is Improving Nothing
A plant with rising OEE on non-bottleneck machines is a plant piling up inventory. The theory of constraints, translated into plant-floor language.
OTIF Recovery in 90 Days: A Playbook Without Capex
Most OTIF programmes fail because they attempt to fix the whole supply chain. Fix the buffer, not the schedule.
The DPO Conversation Every CFO Postpones
Renegotiating supplier payment terms is not adversarial — done well, it strengthens the supplier while releasing your cash.
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Written by Vivek Kashyap. No fluff, no promotions — just the trade-offs behind the numbers.