When looking at potential projects, How will the project imrove the supply chain?
Project 2
Develop focus factories or work cells to streamline the production process.
This will regurie the breakdown of the plant into product line specific "mini" plants. Inventory will be reorganized to support the product line. The reorganization will require physical labor to move inventory and system updates to improve accuracy in terms of quantity and location of inventory.
Employees will be assigned to a specific product line and will need training to understand the focus factory or work cell concept. The factory manager anticipates that employees will have greater ownership of the manufacturing process because they will be more involved in the process from start to finish. He anticipates that errors will be reduced and that employees ill know when inventory is low and needs to be replaced.
Sales and Marketing cautioned that it will be essential that a reorganization of plant production must not impede the delivery of current customer orders. Further delays could cause customers to permanently move their orders to the competition.
The layout for this type of process has not been determined.