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Results found: 9

The implementation of this A4ManagementTools Chain spans several months.
. Step 1: Invite suppliers to self-assess and improve performance: A4084.SupplierStressTest.
. Step 2: Invite suppliers to self-assess their knowledge, skills, and attitudes: A4071.HumanCapitalReadiness.
. Step 3: Assess collaboration risks and ask suppliers to assess their own risks: A4019.Risk&WeaknessAssessment.
. Step 4: Ask suppliers to indicate actions to ensure operational continuity: A4020.BusinessContinuityActions.
. Step 5: Ask suppliers to document work preparation: A4074.WorksPreparation.
. Step 6: Ask suppliers to document the correction of non-conformities: A4032.NonConformityTreatment.
. Step 7: Ask suppliers to apply simplification measures: A4024.LeanActions.
. Step 8: Invite suppliers to self-assess their ability to implement the continuous improvement cycle: A4029.ImprovementActions.
. Step 9: Invite potential suppliers and partners to submit improvement proposals: A4073.ImprovementIdeasImplementation.

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A4084.SupplierStressTest

This tool allows for the evaluation, selection, and enhancement of suppliers, partners, and associates to ensure quality and stability of operations. The tool also offers the possibility to self-evaluate provided performances.

Key Results Solved Problems
Selecting suppliers that meet performance requirements Challenges in finding and selecting suitable suppliers
Evaluating and strengthening supplier activities Variability in the performance offered by suppliers (difficulty in defining a performance rating)
Controlling the reliability of the supply chain and delivery Dependence on third-party performance
Consolidating one’s own production and delivery process Discontinuity in product and service compliance
Verifying the performance received (second-party audits) Obstacles in ensuring the operational continuity of suppliers
Defining expectations and response capabilities objectively Challenges in meeting cost, schedule, and performance quality
Mitigating risks and managing supply interruptions Problems in ensuring compliance with service level agreements
Identifying hidden wastes Variability in one’s performance
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A4071.HumanCapitalReadiness

This tool helps to outline the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required for each professional profile and to guide collaborators

Key Results Solved Problems
Defining specific requirements for each professional profile Absence of defined requirements
Outlining necessary knowledge, skills, and attitudes Absence of a skills database
Evaluating requirement fulfillment Untapped human potential
Identifying gaps and planning improvement Lack of a skills development plan for each role
Attracting talents aligned with company needs Difficulty in drafting development plans
Isolating unsuitable profiles Insufficient incentives for role-specific specialization
Updating the available skills database Risk of selecting inadequate profiles

 

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A4019.RiskAndWeaknessAssessment

This tool allows to detect risks and establish effective treatment. It enables the identification of new opportunities as well as accepting only sustainable residual risks.

Key Results Solved Problems
Identifying and managing risks and vulnerabilities Lack of a methodological approach to managing risks and opportunities
Avoiding preventable risks Limiting to identifying risks without taking action
Addressing risks in the right order, reducing them to the maximum sustainable level Absence of warning thresholds
Avoiding excessive caution that limits the ability to seize opportunities Tendency to manage risks only when they arise
Ensuring compliance with laws, regulations, norms, and good management practices Neglecting the analysis of operational continuity
Monitoring risks and setting alert thresholds Unawareness of risky processes (absence of process risk assessment)
Verifying proper application through internal audits  
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A4074.WorksPreparation

This tool facilitates the optimal preparation of carrying out high- quality activities, inspired by more than 50 practical tips.

Key Results Solved Problems
Having an anticipatory calendar (documenting cyclic activities) Preventable errors
Having an action plan (shared and reusable) Operational inefficiencies
Keeping control of costs, times, and goals Prolonged waiting times
Documenting standardized procedures Management unforeseen events
Minimizing environmental impact: errors, waste, defects Lack of consideration for the environment
Increasing collaborators’ satisfaction Unnecessary movements and waste
  Health and safety risk
  Underutilization of human capital

 

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A4032.NonConformityTreatment

This tool provides a methodology to effectively manage non-conformities, failures, and malfunctions, turning them into opportunities for the organization.

Key Results Solved Problems
Decisively addressing non-compliances, faults, and malfunctions Tendency to accept recurring problems
Distinguishing between improvement and non-compliance Ignoring warning signs
Applying solutions following a scale of effectiveness Adopting temporary or palliative solutions
Documenting correct management practices and legal evidence Omitting the investigation of non-conformity causes
Encouraging a resilient and constant approach Unrealized potential due to errors and discrepancies
Identifying waste and reducing environmental impact and costs  
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A4024.LeanActions

This tool facilitates self-evaluation and the identification of interventions to simplify, standardize, and promote organized and cooperative work (among countless suggestions).

Key Results Solved Problems
Streamlining activities and processes for greater agility Tendency to hoard
Identifying waste, reducing its impact and costs Disorganized management of workspaces
Self-assessing to recognize your simplification capabilities Unsynchronized operations
Minimizing search and preparation times Frequent operational and mental disorder
Responding to client requests within the time of a short phone call Repetitions, errors, and waste
Establishing a coordinated and gradual team approach Obstacles in establishing effective collaboration
Appreciating collaborators’ efforts and stimulating self-generated improvement High time spent searching for information and documents
Reducing waste by adopting a subtraction-based mindset  
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A4029.ImprovementActions

This tool offers a methodology for assigning concrete continuous improvement measures to every collaborator (inspired by multiple suggested activities), along with an action and monitoring plan.

Key Results Solved Problems
Implementing the continuous improvement process Irregular progress
Comparing your management methodologies with best practices Few bottom-up initiatives
Optimizing activity execution, inspired by multiple proposals Intermittent application of best practices
Adopting a systematic approach in task execution Inadequate verification of the application of improvement actions
Ensuring that best practices are effectively applied Recurrence of non-conformities
Extending the improvement approach to all company sectors, in compliance with ISO 9001 standards Occasional integration of learnings into processes
Valuing each collaborator’s contribution  
Identifying waste and reducing environmental impact and costs  

 

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A4073.ImprovementIdeasImplementation

This tool gives everyone the opportunity to propose ideas, perceptions and solutions, promoting continuous improvement.

Key Results Solved Problems
Implementing continuous improvement ideas Uncoordinated (and unauthorized) individual initiatives
Incorporating the best insights of employees and customers into one’s own processes Knowledge confined to the minds of collaborators (rather than integrated into the organization)
Following a shared implementation procedure Neglected suggestions from collaborators
Ensuring some individuals’ innovation translates into the entire organization’s progress Missed improvement opportunities
Minimizing resistance to change Interruptions in the continuous improvement process
Recognizing collaborators’ areas of specialization Proposals left pending
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A4020.BusinessContinuityActions

This tool catalogs preventive and corrective, mild and acute measures with the aim of ensuring business continuity based on events and alert levels.

Key Results Solved Problems
Establishing response protocols to maintain operational continuity Disorganized individual actions
Preparing an emergency intervention plan Late and limited disruption indicators
Designing layered responses based on alert levels (predictive rather than reactive) Absence of self-analysis on disruptive factors (endogenous and exogenous)
Compiling a responsibility assignment matrix Uncertainties about roles and recovery procedures
Verifying alternative plans Delays in reacting to events
Exploring and verifying mitigation measures Lack of action plans for scenarios
Establishing and testing recovery procedures (disaster recovery)  
Guiding the organization towards planned redundancy and flexibility (resilient approach)  

A4084.SupplierStressTest

Key Results Solved Problems
Selecting suppliers that meet performance requirements Challenges in finding and selecting suitable suppliers
Evaluating and strengthening supplier activities Variability in the performance offered by suppliers (difficulty in defining a performance rating)
Controlling the reliability of the supply chain and delivery Dependence on third-party performance
Consolidating one’s own production and delivery process Discontinuity in product and service compliance
Verifying the performance received (second-party audits) Obstacles in ensuring the operational continuity of suppliers
Defining expectations and response capabilities objectively Challenges in meeting cost, schedule, and performance quality
Mitigating risks and managing supply interruptions Problems in ensuring compliance with service level agreements
Identifying hidden wastes Variability in one’s performance