Key Points covered 1. Role of Productivity SA in SA especially within Dti 2. How does it help business owners? Cover different services and solutions with contributions 3. How do they screen the entrepreneurs 4. How to get hold of Productivity SA to get help. Here is the link of the video ...https://youtu.be/qQxzXyZ1wDg

1. INTRODUCTION TO PRODUCTIVITY SA
SERVICES
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Productivity SA is a schedule 3A Public Entity of the Department of Employment and
Labour with the mandate to promote employment growth and productivity thereby
contributing to South Africa’s socio-economic development and competitiveness
PRODUCTIVITY SA MANDATE
COUNTRY
Constitution, NDP,
Competitiveness
Indices (e.g. IMD and
WEF) etc.
INDUSTRY
Sector Master Plans,
Productivity Statistics,
Sector Studies
ENTERPRISE LEVEL
Competitiveness
Improvement Solutions
(CIS) and Business
Turnaround and
Recovery (BT &R)
VISION
To lead and inspire a productive and competitive South Africa
MISSION
To improve productivity by diagnosing, advising, implementing, monitoring and evaluating
solutions aimed at improving South Africa’s sustainable growth, development and employment
through increase competitiveness
VALUE PROPOSITION
Provide Productivity and Competitiveness Improvement Solutions to enhance the productivity
and operational efficiency of enterprises throughout the business lifecycle to accelerate the
creation of wealth and decent work.

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REGIONAL FOOTPRINT
Office: Midrand
• International Business
Gateway
Cnr. New Road and Sixth
Roads, Midrand,
Tel: 011 848 5300
Region 1
Executive Manager
Ms Lalane Janse van
Rensburg
Office: Cape Town
• Suite 202, 2nd Floor
• Edward III Building, 70
Edward Street
• Bellville
• Tel: 021 910 1591
Region 2
Executive Manager:
Mr Albert Brink
Office: eThekwini/Durban
• Suite 201, Cowey Park
• 91-123 Cowey Road
• Essenwood
• Tel: 031 268 9770
Region 3
Executive Manager:
Ms Amelia Naidoo
REGION 1
Gauteng, North West,
Limpopo
REGION 2
Western Cape, Free State,
Northern Cape
REGION 3
KwaZulu Natal, Eastern
Cape, Mpumalanga

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The Functions i.t.o s32 of the
Employment Services Act
a) To promote a culture of
productivity in the workplace;
b) To facilitate and evaluate
productivity improvement and
competencies in workplaces;
c) To support initiatives aimed at
preventing job losses;
• Enterprise Competitiveness and Sustainability. The
Competitiveness Improvement Services (CIS)
Programme provides support to enterprises to improve their
competitiveness and sustainability to preserve current jobs
and create new decent jobs. The Programme further support
South Africa’s strategic objectives in scaling up efforts to
promote long term industrialisation and transformation of the
economy targeting enterprises of all sizes within the priority
productive sectors.
• Prevent job losses. The Business Turnaround and
Recovery Programme provides Turnaround Strategies and
Plans to restructure and improve the productivity and
operational efficiency of companies facing economic distress
to save jobs or minimise the retrenchment of employees.
d) To measure and evaluate
productivity in the workplace;
e) To maintain a database of
productivity & competitiveness
systems & publicise these systems;
f) To undertake productivity-related
research.
• Research, Innovation and Statistics (RIS)
Programme. Providing productivity and competitiveness
related value-added information and statistics, best
practices and systems through research activities and
databases
The programmes are designed to promote productivity holistically across sectors (national,
sector and enterprise level) to inculcate a productivity culture and mind-set as well as driving
accountability for productivity performance.
PRODUCTIVITY SA FUNCTIONS

5. PRODUCTIVITY SA ENTERPRISE SUPPORT
PROGRAMMES
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* Businesses to be assisted should meet the following criteria:
• Operational (Proof of transactions such as invoices & orders)
• Regulatory compliance
• Financials
• Operating premises
Sustainable
Enterprises
Distressed
Enterprises
* Emerging
Enterprises
Competitiveness
Improvement Services (CIS)
Business Turnaround &
Recovery (BT&R)

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•Financial Assessment
•Process flow Analysis
Current State
(As-Is)
• Kaizen training for
internal Champions
• Map the process, &
Identify areas for
improvement (Kaizen
Event)
• Create the action Plan
for implementation
Kaizen Event
• Implement the
improvements as
per the action
plan
Implementation
• Evaluate the
improvements
implemented
• Record the impact
Performance
Monitoring
Intervention 1:
Assessment Report
Intervention 2:
Improvement Roadmap &
Capacitation of Champions
Intervention 3:
Implementation
Intervention 4:
Monitoring & Evaluation
•Financial Assessment
that gives the financial
health of the business
•Map the Current State
•Identified internal Champions
are trained on Kaizen tools
•Kaizen Event that creates an
action plan & impact
measures
Projects implemented by
internal Champions based
on the training and tools
shared
•Projects presented by
internal champions
•Tracking performance
KAIZEN PROJECT (6 mths)

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Workplace Transformation
12mth Programme

8. THE WORKPLACE TRANSFORMATION
(Stable businesses - small/medium/large) 12mth programme
• To assist South African organisations to enhance
productivity and competitiveness
Best
Practices
Collaboration
Improved Productivity &
Competitiveness
Sharing
lessons

9. The key strategies of best practice organisations include:
– Implementing leadership practices that promote teamwork, participation,
continuous learning and flexibility
– Focusing on simultaneous improvement of quality, speed/delivery; cost and
morale
– Establishing close links with customers and suppliers;
– Driving both linear and non-linear improvement initiatives;
– Eliminating all forms of waste and making value flow.
Productivity SA: Following Womack, James P. & Daniel T. Jones (1996) Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and
Create Wealth in Your Corporation, Simon & Schuster
WHAT DO WE MEAN BY “BEST OPERATING
PRACTICES”?

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WORKPLACE
TRANSFORMATION TOOLKITS

11. Overview of the Foundation Toolkits
Toolkit 1 – Goal Alignment
§ Align goals top down and bottom up
§ Engage employees in the organisation
through the mini-business concept
§ Implement visual performance
management of Quality, Speed, Cost &
Morale
§ Create an environment for problem
solving, innovations and continuous
improvement.

12. Toolkit 2 – Cleaning and Organising
§ Makes work easier
§ Energises teams
§ Improves the physical environment
§ Improves productivity by reducing wasteful
activities such as searching
§ Gets teams thinking about improving processes
and efficient workplace layouts
Overview of the Foundation Toolkits

13. Toolkit 3 - Teamwork
§ Creating a learning environment for skills
enhancement
§ Build a competent multi-skilled and
versatile team
§ Integrating performance management
focused on the achievement of
organisational goals
Overview of the Foundation Toolkits

14. Toolkit 4 - Leadership
Strengthening leadership skills that go
beyond management skills
§ Coaching team members
§ Motivating the team
§ Empowering the team
§ Managing change
Overview of the Foundation Toolkits

15. Impact Measures
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Quality
% Defects
Customer
complaints
(Number)
% Right first
time
% Rework
Cost of quality
Cost
Overtime
Cost per unit of
output
Raw material
waste
Labour
efficiency
Packaging
material waste
Delivery
Daily Adherence
to plan
/schedule
Lead time
Average
changeover time
Customer
service level
OEE (Overall
Equipment
Efficiency)
MTTF (Mean
Time To Faliure)
Productivity
Safety
Disability injury
frequency rate
Minor injury
frequency rate
Accident free
days
Morale
Number of ideas
suggested
Number of ideas
implemented
Absenteeism
ESI (Employee
Satisfaction
Index)

16. Other benefits
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Clustering: Sector &
Regional
Skills development:
Champions Trained/
Capacity building
Sharing of Lessons:
Milestone
workshops
Improve workplace
practices

17. Costing – 12 month Programme
(based on clustering)
Criteria Size
Support
Days
Total Cost
(Material &
Support)
Grant per
company
%
subsidy
Total Company
Portion
(12mths)
Small - Black
owned
15-50 24 R 131 250 R 110 400 84% R20 850
Small 15-50 24 R 131 250 R 96 000 73% R35 250
Medium 51-100 36 R 191 250 R 144 000 75% R 47 250
Medium 101-150 36 R 225 000 R 144 000 64% R81 000
Medium/Large 151 - 250 42 R 255 000 R 168 000 66% R 87 000
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*Once off payment, or payment plan (2 or 4 payments)

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