The primary objective of a Lean Program is to reduce time-to-cash by focusing on waste elimination throughout the business and shop floor. When properly executed, a Lean Program will effectively transform your business and increase profitability by reducing waste, conflict, and increasing customer value. More importantly, when properly executed your Lean Program will have a major positive impact on the behavior of your employees and your company’s overall culture.
Successful companies set a solid foundation by documenting the Value Stream. This effectively eliminates silos and focuses all employees on global rather than local efficiencies. Improvements then address the “system” needs in a prioritized sequence and not just a small component of the system.
Kaizen™ means continuous improvement involving everyone – managers and workers alike, in training. Collectively, the team learns about Lean, aligns themselves to the company strategy and objectives, and drives rapid change for the better.
Automation tools and digital technologies provide the ability to elevate an operation and bring greater efficiencies to the Value Stream.
The risk of changing the status quo seems far too great for many companies. Many managers and executives don’t want to put the “power to improve” in the hands of employees. Maintaining the status quo and failing to involve employees in improvement activities, however, will eventually impact the company’s ability to scale operations and sustain profitable performance.
Creating and unlocking value in an organization starts with knowing where opportunities for improvement lie and how they will influence the organizations overall business performance. From the very beginning, your program must place improvement emphasis on getting a continuous stream of front-line ideas rather than management-driven bursts of improvement. These types of programs emphasize daily improvement through large numbers of small front-line improvement ideas.
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Knowledgeable and experienced continuous improvement specialists working with clients who are serious about improving business performance can point to actual results as proof that a Lean Program can transform your company. Our clients are reporting benefitting from many improvements as a result of our Lean, ERP, and Smart Manufacturing program support.
Employees are more productive and happier when redundancy and waste are eliminated from their day-to-day activities. Front office productivity gains of 30% – 60% are common.
Shop Floor Productivity Gains of 25% – 55% and shop floor space reductions of 20% – 45% are frequently realized. This allows companies to produce more in the same square footage with the same number of resources.
Inventory reductions of 30% – 60% and WIP reductions of 40% – 70% lead to increased cash flow and free up funds to reinvest in more improvement activities.
Lead time reductions of 20% – 60% and on-time delivery gains of 20% – 45% reduce the order to cash time duration and increase customer satisfaction.
Cost of quality reductions of 20% – 60% go directly to the bottom line and increase profitability.
