Case Study: Pierce County Procurement Streamlines Contracting & Procurement Proccesses
By: Julie Griffin, Project Manager, Department of Public Works & Utilities
Summary by: GoLeanSixSigma.com
Case Study Pierce County - Summary by GoLeanSixSigma.com
1. Case Study:
Pierce County Procurement
Streamlines Contracting &
Procurement Processes
Using Lean To Standardize Processes
By: Julie Griffin, Project Manager, Department of Public Works & Utilities
Summary by:
2. Public Works & Utilities (PWU)
• used to have its own contracting and procurement
processes
• sought to streamline its work
• combined Lean principles and best practices to
eliminate invoice processing delays and approval
times
3. • One standard invoicing process
replaced seven processes
• One standard process for
assigning work replaced eight
processes
• One standard process for
procuring and managing small
works contracts replaced eight
processes
Department Establishments
4. Process Improvement Techniques Used
• Work flow mapping
• Root cause analysis
• Brainstorming
• Voice of the Customer (VOC)
5. Improving Completion Rates &
Reducing Errors
• The team also
• reduced the amount of repeated work
• began creating requests for proposals and
amendments correctly the first time from 50% to
90-95%
• launched the implementation phase of the contract
management review initiative
6. Start Improving Today.
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