Case No 3
Optimisation of time-to-offer
Initial situation strong>
Long process lead time proposal creation (chemical industry)
Improvement
- Reduction in media breaks 40%
- Reduction in cycle time 60%
- Increase in team efficiency 35%
Procedure
- Identification of customer-critical information (CTC) and process interfaces
- Value Stream Mapping (VSM) of existing process (workshop)
- Standardisation of two process variations or design target processes (workshop)
- Definition of KPIs for measuring performance (performance boards)
- New process layout with reduced or shorter transport routes
- Roll-out of new process, process controlling
- Reduction of processing time (cycle time, PLT) from five days to a maximum of 2 days.