Identifying problem and opportunity areas
Identifying opportunities for business, efficiency, and operations improvement should be done using the information gathered in the analysis of business performance, problem identifying tools such as problem trees, employee surveys and lean manufacturing audit.
Inventory ordering processes and systems
⦁ Production scrap rates and re work
Product changeovers
Production scheduling
⦁ Warehousing and intercompany ⦁ stock transactions
⦁ Management hierarchy and use of human resources
⦁ Movement of wip and raw materials along the ⦁ supply chain
⦁ Inventory age and obsolete inventory holdings
⦁ Accounting complexity within the business
Plant or operation downtime
⦁ Plant and machinery ⦁ maintenance regimes and resources
⦁ Use of company assets and resources by management
⦁ Reliability of raw material supply
⦁ Cluttered and disorganized work spaces
Operational efficiency through
lean manufacturing, Quality Control and Management, Preventive & Predictive Maintenance, Inventory management, Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS )management, Energy Management
