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Short notes you can use on Monday. Three pieces are out; the next ones are in preparation — write to us to be told when they are published.

Claims & variations

The notice that saves a claim

Why a missed notice period can sink a valid claim — and a one-page notice-and-records routine that site teams can actually follow.

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Reporting & automation

Kill the monthly report

How to find the reports nobody reads, cut the rest to one page and automate the refresh — and count the hours you get back.

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Waste Scan

What a 5-day Waste Scan actually looks at

The eight loss categories we measure first, and the one that surprises most owners.

In preparation
Control charts

Is the process out of control, or just noisy?

How to read a control chart without a statistics degree — and the three mistakes that trigger false alarms.

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Last Planner

Percent Plan Complete: the one number for site reliability

Why PPC predicts schedule slips weeks earlier than percent complete.

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Forecasting

Naive, moving average, or model? Choosing a forecast in Excel

A manager's decision tree, with MAE and MAPE explained in one paragraph.

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Process mining

Your ERP already knows where the bottleneck is

What an event log is, how to export one, and what the first picture usually shows.

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SME Rescue

A pharmacy, a clinic and a restaurant: three one-number fixes

How the same method works when the whole business fits in one room.

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Ready to move a number?

Start with a free 45-minute conversation — no commitment. We will tell you what we would look at first.