Manufacturing Throughput Ranker
A bottleneck-aware product mix ranker (Theory of Constraints style).
It measures throughput per bottleneck minute — not fully absorbed unit cost.
Use it to prioritise the mix that earns the most contribution on the scarce resource.
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Manufacturing Throughput Ranker
Rank the mix by throughput per bottleneck minute — not fully absorbed unit cost.
Illustrative AU manufacturing sample until you enter actuals. Not financial advice.
Price, TVC (truly variable cost), bottleneck minutes
TVC (truly variable cost) is materials (and other truly variable $) — not absorbed overhead. Persist locally · Jump to rank
Ranked mix by constraint minute
Highest Throughput / bottleneck minute should eat the constraint first — unless a commercial override exists.
Ranked list
How this is calculated
- Throughput = Selling price − Truly variable cost (materials)
- Throughput / bottleneck minute = Throughput ÷ Bottleneck minutes
- Rank by Throughput / bottleneck minute descending
- OEE (optional) = Availability × Performance × Quality
Contrast: absorption / fully loaded unit cost can invert the mix. Illustrative — not advice.
Sensitivity dials
Price, TVC (truly variable cost), and bottleneck minutes — base table below; adjusted rank in the what-if cards.
What-if dials
Each dial stacks on every product.
Scales selling price on every SKU.
Scales truly variable cost (materials).
Scales bottleneck minutes (process time).
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