The book suggests a five-step process to manage constraints. First, identify the constraints that are preventing the organization from reaching its goals. Second, decide how to exploit these constraints. Third, subordinate everything else to the decision made in the second step. Fourth, elevate the constraints if they are still a limiting factor. Finally, if a constraint has been broken, go back to the first step and do not allow inertia to create a new constraint.
The Goal uses simple reasoning as a tool to teach the Theory of Constraints (TOC) by presenting the...
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