You are in the right place if an increase in output would help, but you need to control costs
- Often, our perception of the truth turns out not to be true; we have to make too many assumptions about what jobs are where
- We experience flow problems which, in hindsight, we caused by reacting too early or too late
- It is nearly impossible to delegate the responses we make to others and have them act in an informed manner
- When a spike of demand is introduced to the system, it often completes late and compromises the lead time of other jobs
- Spikes of demand in the forward orders seriously overloads the constraint for short periods of time, queues build at the non-constraints, and expediting increases
- Too often, flow obstacles and risks are invisible to managers until a problem manifests
- Periodically, we have to tell sales to stop selling so that operations can catch up
With Visibility of Trending Risk, you will:
- Put released jobs of visual boards that tell the truth, and design visual representations which expose all the information necessary for operators to select their next job/task
- Decide how priority and resource allocation instructions will be communicated through the board, rather than in person
- Hold regular status where operators report at-risk jobs and perceived obstacles to the timely completion of their jobs
- Put released jobs of visual boards that aggregate orders into useful time slices such as daily for near term, weekly, and for longer-term monthly. Spread the load of any overloaded time slice
With Visibility of Trending Risk, you will ensure that any side effects of the change will be worth it!
While implementing Visibility of Trending Risk, you will address the following common concerns people have. For example:
- Our list(s) of jobs rapidly gets out of date, and we often find that the jobs represented on the list are not in the state that the list shows
- Operators tend to give a poorly-considered or null input when surprised by an update
- The further out a job is the less final the capacity loading is; more and more changes in load occur making equally granular time slices less and less useful
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