- Initial Assessment
- Developing team and creating communication plan
- Constructing scope
- Capturing, Evaluating and Understanding and the Current State
- Make Value stream map the overall current state.
- Process reviews, maps and visuals highlighting current state of the operation.
- Data collectiong and interpretation.
- Visiting operational sites.
- Create a visual map of the supply chain network.
- Compute total logistics costs.
- Evaluate transportation and inventory strategy.
- Conduct current state waste and opportunity evaluation with key stakeholders.
- Gain an understanding of warehouse, transportation, and inventory process capabilities.
- Conduct Current State Analysis:
- Conduct various analysis w.r.t. Speed, Cost, Quality, Delivery with respect to multiple options and testing those options e.g. transportation impact, the end customer profile, and system inventory.
- Application of Lean Principles e.g. eliminating waste, reducing lead time, and creating level flow
- Develop the Desired State with Optimum Outputs:
- Defines, quantifys, and prioritize the gaps between current and desired state.
- Develop actionable implementation road map
- Engage team members and assign roles, goals and responsibilities
- Suggest and anlayze whether a change management plan is also necessary
- Other Deliverables:
- Visual representation of desired state model
- Detailed gap analysis from current to desired state to show potential results, comparing the current-state performance against potential results of the desired future state
- Impacts on resources: infrastructure, process, and technology
- A summary of Total logistics costs and their impacts
- FMEA (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis)
Benefits Expected:
- Problem solving at root-cause level
- Step by step implementation
- Total logistics cost reduction
- Working capital improvement or at optimum level
- Support to manufacturing processes increasing efficiency
- Optimization of materials and information flow.