Agenda For Today.
- Introduction
- Issues
- Weaknesses (Inv. Finance Dept)
- Opportunities (Inv. Finance Dept)
- Suggestions
- Conclusion
- Q & A
1.Look at your VSM and identify what activities (mails, meetings, phone calls and etc) are not mentioned and group them in 5 buckets.
- Related to close
- Not related to close but urgent
- Can be done outside the close
- What should be assigned to someone else
2. Where do we have opportunities (reports, processes, journals,...), Identify what we can change or approve.
- look at your own activities
- look at the team
3. 3hrs workshop will be scheduled week of 27Th of January, please come prepared with ideas, suggestions, etc.
During the workshop we will define a plan and agree how to enroll these improvements.
Issues:
Opportunities:
Issues:
Weaknesses:
Team' s Suggestions:
Inventory Accountant (Rumst):
Inventory Accountant (Rugby):
Account Payable Analyst (M. S):
Following are the issues, which were revealed by the Inv. Fin dept team during one on one meeting with Intern.
Team Leader:
- Prefer to use GOMS instead of SOMS.
- Too many applications to accomplish his daily tasks.
- No official meeting with T.L.
- He considers himself as an Island.
- Little Knowledge of GOMS.
- Receive too much Queries.
- Too many E-mails.
- Only one Meeting once a month with T.L.
- Unequal distribution of Workload.
- Team leader lacks communication skills.
- Lack of Knowledge to carry daily task.
- Lack of friendly working environment.
- Mismanagement of time.
- Lack of team spirit.
- Issues with bad interdepartmental communication.
- Too much manual work.
- Too busy at Month-end.
- At month-end several SQLs have to be extracted.
- No pre-training sessions before introduction of new applications.
- Issues with laptop, takes more time to process & function slower.
- Lotus Notes gives issue as well.
- Excel sheet stop responding after a while due over load of work.
- Organize more meetings (I.e. Team & Individual).
- Provide more training Sessions.
- Set up clear goals & objectives.
- Create strong team bond.
- Have patience to listen to each other.
- Recognize group & individual achievements.
- Pursue accountability and inspire the team to exceed its goals.
- Bad quality of interdepartmental reports.
- Too many Emails on a daily basis.
- Too many Meetings.
Introduction :
Aim of project!
Value stream mapping inventory process and define possible
improvements in order to reduce overtime and safety risk.
How the project was carried out?
- Use of secondary data.
- Qualitative method.
- One on One Interview.
Value Stream Mapping
Inv. Fin Dept
- Provide Training sessions according to their skill.
- Evaluate the outcome of training sessions.
- Provide further Trainings in case of improvements & Willingness to learn something.
- Create sub-folders in Lotus Notes.
- Provide a team leader, with better communication skills.
- Face to Face meetings & Town Hall Meetings.
- Video meetings for Inv. Acc (Rugby).
- No intermediate in team to
convey the message.
- Improve Interdepartmental communication.
- It is feasible to reduce the current over time by 50%.
- Communicate Positively & Openly.
- Create Team spirit.
- The Purchase PO, Sum of Conv to USD & Receipts INVTRAN.
- Final Cycle count not during ME.
- SQls on Friday at ME should be run by I.T.
- Edit & Submit journals at ME.
- Move the Lunch list from M.S.
This is a new year. A new beginning.
And things will change
Fatiha Doudouh & Serge Wouters