Planning system for production and logistics optimization
Value stream method as a coordinating element
Due to ever shorter innovation and product life cycles, product launches are becoming an important core competence for many companies. A "Comic" planning system comes from Pull Beratung.
There is potential for improvement, particularly at the interface between technical development and the design of production and logistics processes. In order to exploit this potential, Prof. Dr. Markus Schneider's Pull Beratung has developed the "Comic" planning system. It synchronizes the planning of the necessary plant structures, processes and resources with the product development phase.
The method kit offers designers of production and logistics processes a comprehensive and consistent process model even before the start of production (SOP) in order to design the four most important flows in a company - communication, material, information and capital flow - in an integrated and consistent manner. The planning system is made up of the modules Communication Flow Design (CoFD), Material Flow Design (MFD), Information Flow Design (IFD) and Cash Flow Design (CFD).
Communication Flow Design focuses on the topic of communication between the various levels of a company, which is extremely important for the success of a project. The shared vision and the Kata management method are of central importance here. Material Flow Design includes a top-down view of the entire company site using the value stream method and a software-based and lean-compatible material flow planning system. The value stream is also used to realign traditional cost center and cost unit accounting using cash flow design. Finally, information flow design provides methods and tools to synchronize the flow of materials and information within the company.
"All four building blocks are aligned with one another using a single method, the value stream method," explains Prof. Dr. Schneider, Managing Director of Pull Beratung, who developed the planning system. "This is a unique selling point and offers enormous advantages over conventional approaches in terms of the consistency of the strategies and measures developed." pb
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