In food manufacturing and distribution, profitability is all about the details, including plant downtime and maintenance, overtime, purchasing practices, raw materials management, customer service practices, and measuring performance against goals. How do CFOs, controllers, and plant managers determine if they are bleeding cash through inefficiencies and lost opportunities?
In this training webinar, Daniel Campos (Managing Partner, London Consulting Group), presents best practices for implementing operational performance improvement projects to help companies find and quantify areas where they can enhance revenue, reduce costs, and increase profits. As a result of assessments and the implementation of improvements, organizations typically achieve a variety of competitive advantages, including more accurate forecasting, improved communication between sales, production, and procurement, and a greater focus on profitable clients, products, and production lines.
Takeaways from this presentation include:
The importance of operational performance improvement assessments and the methodology behind them
How to build a roadmap for the process
How OEE and software solutions help increase the visibility of manufacturing efficiency in your food facility
How the operational changes you make as a result of performance improvement assessments can yield better accountability from organizational leaders
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Operational Effectiveness: Uncovering the Hidden Dollars in Your Food Facility
1. Operational Effectiveness: Uncovering the Hidden Dollars
in Your Food Facility
Presented By: Daniel Campos, London Consulting Group
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16. Structure
Org. Chart
Fixed Costs
Company Culture
IT Systems
Other supporting
structures
Commercial and Planning
Forecasting
Budgeting
Sales
Planning
Procurement
Suppliers
Operations
Order Processing
Material Handling
Maintenance
Manufacturing
Quality Control
Distribution
Collections
Customers
Operational Excellence:
Standardize, increase visibility and control
Drive Efficiencies:
Measure, baselines and goals, accountability
Scope:BusinessCycleasa
Guideline
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19. ProcessMapping
Value stream maps document the procedures used to organize, procure, and deliver value to
customers. We do this through interviews with the staff that performs the work. The tool captures
‘live documents’ to find where value is added or lost. The large format of the document enables
group work and the consensus of where opportunities are, which is the first step in solving them.
Org. Chart
analysis
Detailed description
of how each step is
performed (5W-2H)
Candid
comments from
employees
Live documents
showcasing the
systems in action
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20. Org. Chart analysis allows us to understand the
company’s structure, fixed costs, and how
decisions and accountabilities flow through the
organization
Multiple value stream maps on display
Value stream mappings show all the details of activities
including copies of ‘live documents’ that illustrate how
systems and procedures work together
Value Stream Maps uncover large-scale
opportunities such as:
• Disconnection between demand signals,
forecast and production planning
• Poor management of customers that can
buy a higher variety of products or book
increasing share of plant capacity
• Purchasing function has poor visibility of
in-stock, in-transit, pricing variance and
usage forecast.
The Performance Improvement Assessment
21. Detailed
observations
Observation studies show us a “Day in the Life” of key personnel. While the process described in
the Value Stream is usually long-termed, the minute-by-minute perspective of the Observation
Study provides details as the employee’s routine plays out. The intricate details of how the plan is
executed become apparent, and we capture insights that are otherwise lost in the day-to-day.
Snapshot of activities
every 2 minutes
Description of activities
Candid comments
from employees
Total time invested,
sorted by relative
value of activity
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22. CSREPRESENTATIVE SUPERVISOR WHMANAGER
The color coding of Observation Studies quickly provide an understanding of
value addition, effectiveness of the organizational structure, development of
supervisory skills, and robustness of the work systems that surround the
workers.
We often discover:
• Supervisors in all areas lack a “Daily Routine”
• Poor integration and communication between departments
• Large portion of the day of supervisors doing administrative or manual work
• Service standards that offer the same service to all customers
• Use of manual tools that need constant updates and rework
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23. Proofisinthe
Pudding
Valid facts are the foundation of a sound project
proposal. We use an array of analytical tools to
ensure we are looking at confirmed trends and
that the operational levers that drive financial
performance are available.
The analytics drive the estimation of potential
savings, and are always developed together with
operations and financial departments.
• Sales and penetration
• Manufacturing efficiency
• Quality Control
• Customer Service
• Cost and expense control
• Compliance to plans
• Financials
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24. 21 days of analysis
Cross-selling statistics feed sales campaigns
during implementation
ABC of Sales (@ Cost)
ABC Cost on Hand A B C Grand Total
A
Number of Items 347 173 171 691
Days of cover 129 582 3,764 190
% of total cost OH 50% 16% 13% 79%
B
Number of Items 119 271 433 823
Days of cover 25 165 1,024 118
% of total cost OH 2% 6% 8% 16%
C
Number of Items 175 411 2001 2587
Days of cover 3 21 155 32
% of total cost OH 0% 1% 4% 5%
Total Number of Items 641 855 2605 4101
Total Days of cover 93 213 690 141
Total % of total cost OH 53% 23% 25% 100%
Unbalanced stock can increase
stock value by up to 30%
Changeover flushes vs. overall flushes show
opportunities to increase yields / reduce scrap
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Changeovers
End Flush
Total Flushes
Observed OEE / TVQ (and its
trending) can shed light on the
varying performance between lines,
products and shifts
27. Prioritiesbasedon
FinancialImpact
Category Savings Source Current State Savings Goal
GoToMarket
Increase revenue from a re-defined
pricing model (Regular)
Regular customer with margin
below operating expenses of 15%
15%
$720,000
Selling Process
Reduce cost to serve by transfering
order processing to customer service
service
Balances customers assinged to
Sales Representative and
Customer Service.
$370,000
Increase productivity in sales process
process
Average of 8 orders processed per
per day per sales representative.
representative.
$2,000,000
Procurement Increase discounts for early payment
80% of purchased goods without
$410,000
Warehouse
Reduce employees overtime from
Incoming Operation by increasing
receiving productivity
Average 41 pieces / hour $500,000
Reduce employees overtime from
Outgoing Operation by increasing
picking productivity
Average 37 pieces / hour $250,000
Distribution
Reduce employees overtime from Idle
Idle Time
23% overtime of the working
hours.
$630,000
Savings Totals Savings Totals $4,880,000
EXAMPLE
Settingchangeinmotion
30. Buildtheroadmap
Prepare a plan to correct the deficiencies and
release the potential for both operational and
financial improvement.
Lay out the objectives and the financial benefits
by process, the scope of the project to generate
these benefits, a week-by-week, activity-by-
activity work schedule, the required investment
and expected return.
• What are we changing?
• Baselines
• Goals and savings
• Methodology
• Detailed work schedule
• Investment and return
Settingchangeinmotion
31. Describethe
Roadmap
Settingchangeinmotion
Efficient customer
order processing
Inventory control of
FG
Solid foundation for
ERP implementation
Automate components
supply and centralize
procurement
Increase Sales by
executing redefined
GoToMarket
strategies
Inventory accuracy
and control by
implementation of
best practices
Process
improvement along
with ERP
implementation
support
Full visibility and
integration of warehouse
management (components,
WIP, FG)
Standard Stores and
Wholesale channels to
minimize mistakes and
increase potential
Low hanging fruit to increase
on-time deliveries, reduce
cancelations/discounts and
provide order processing
visibility
Current
State
Efficient
Scheduling,
Production, QA,
fabric use
Future
State
Replicate efficiencies in
High Point