To achieve significant progress on new organizational processes or systems tackle the fundamental to do list first: understand your current processes to figure out where the opportunities for improvement and systems leverage lie.
Do you have enough of the "right" skills and "right" people? Unlikely so.
Instead of following this path to work hard yet leave many half-finished projects hanging around, we need to create and implement a culture of innovation.
As businesses try to find ways to grow sales in today's highly competitive environment, fundamentals must remain in place to ensure quality and service.
Team attitude, knowledge, skills, and resources will make or break the successful implementation of lean. The best managers prepare the company culture for a bumpy but rewarding ride.
Those who want to thrive will focus immediate attention on creating a culture of innovation.
A reenergized demand plan is fortified with meaningful data trends that point the way to improved service levels and increased profit margins.
Take a fresh look at your processes. You'll be surprised by what a review could uncover.
Explore the advantages of outsourcing, insourcing, and nearsourcing to meet strategic goals, control costs, and enhance customer satisfaction.
The fun of production scheduling is also the most important aspect, managing competing priorities and variables to find the best overall solution. Production scheduling has been a part of my expertise since my post-college days at Coca-Cola Enterprises. It has been a part of every job I've held (whether directly or indirectly) and a part of almost every project I've consulted on since. Thus, I have a passion for this topic.
