Welcome to Job Shop TOC

My name is Bruce Venema.  I am an independent accountant and consultant specializing in small job shop manufacturers using Exact JobBOSS.

My goal is to put any job shop I work with on a path of on-going improvement and steady, low-risk growth.

I help in three main areas:

1. Straighten up and streamline accounting and financial reporting by getting the books caught up and by getting the most out of Exact JobBOSS supplemented by Excel spreadsheets.  Train and supervise an internal staff person or a lower billing rate freelance bookkeeper to do data entry and other administrative tasks daily.  Provide internal accounting reports to your CPA to allow them to efficiently prepare external financial reports and tax returns.

2. Implement Simplified Drum-Buffer-Rope scheduling, from the Theory of Constraints (TOC), to bring the company to 100% on-time shipments. This positions the company well against its competitors since many small job shops have great difficulty shipping orders on time.

3. Assist in increasing Throughput (Sales revenue minus materials and commissions) by developing and implementing a Throughput increase project plan.  Participate with the management group in listing obstacles to Throughput increases, turn those obstacles into intermediate objectives and then develop and execute a Throughput increase project plan based on the assigned and prioritized intermediate objectives. This process is intended to monetize the production improvements achieved in the previous step.  The focus is on revenue and Throughput increases.  It is important to control costs, but usually by the time I get involved, costs have been reduced substantially already due to cash flow limitations.  Increasing revenue and Throughput is the only avenue left to increasing cash flow substantially.

One thing I like about the Theory of Constraints as a management system is that it is always pointing a company to the few items they need to work on now to get profit improvement now.  This is important because management time and financial resources are always in short supply and you need to get the most out of both of them.

You will find here many examples of tools and techniques that can help put your job shop on a path of on-going improvement and steady, low-risk growth.