Manufacturing Companies
In advising on a leaner manufacturing business, the following are the 7 areas of focus:
1. Accounting
- Invoices / GRN’s reconciliation
- Stock Valuation & Accuracy
- Debtors Payments
- Creditors Payments
- Preparation of Management Accounts Procedure
2. Customers / Sales
- Sales Strategy
- Customer expectations / standards
- Customer-specific issues
- Monthly Sales Targets
- Sales Pipeline
- Sales Reporting procedure
3. Suppliers
- Price negotiation
- True cost of material parts
- Delivery performance
- Quality level
- Forecast information
- Supplier Audits
4. Purchasing
- Effective Negotiation
- Purchases in line with MRP demand
- Materials availability
- Supplier Rating published
5. Stores
- Stock receiving & inspection procedure
- Product locations set up & on the system
- ABC analysis of stock
- Rolling Stocktakes
- Obsolete stock procedure
- Scheduling process for production
- Stores Control
6. Design & Production
- R & D / Design Simulation
- Life-Cycle testing
- New product Introduction (FMEA) procedure
- ECR / ECN procedure
- Production scheduling procedure
- Capacity planning
- Training/cross training
- Production procedures – up-to-date and relevant
- Yield Monitoring
- Measurement of labour & materials costs
- Traceability – machine and operatives
- Internal quality audits
- Root cause analysis / corrective action procedure
7. General
- Management Information System – fit for purpose
- Performance Management – regular appraisals in place