Post on 21-Jul-2016
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Benchmarking and improvement
Thomas Matheus
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• How can operations measure their performance in terms of their five performance objectives?
• How can operations managers prioritize improvement of performance objectives?
• What are the broad approaches for managing the rate of improvement?
Learning outcomes
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• Where does business process engineering (BPR) fit into the improvement activity?
• What techniques can be used for improvement?
Learning outcomes
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• Operations management and improvement
Measuring and improving performance
• Accessing the current state
• What is performance measurement?
Portfolio for evaluating corporate processes
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How operations can measure their performance
Cost
Dependability
FlexibilitySpeed
Quality Cost
Dependability
FlexibilitySpeed
Quality
Market requirements and operations performance change over time
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• Performance measures
Measuring and improving performance
• Performance standards
• Historical standards
• Target performance standards
• Competitor performance standards
• Absolute performance standards
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100
90
80
70
60
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Absolute performance = 100%
Customer expectation = 98%
Target performance = 95%
Competitor performance = 81%
Now
Per
cent
age
of d
eliv
erie
s on
-tim
e
Performance against customer expectations is POORHistorical performance is GOODPerformance against target is POORPerformance against competitors is GOODAbsolute performance is POOR
Delivery performance is 87% Is this good, bad, or indifferent ?
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XX
XX
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• Benchmarking
Measuring and improving performance
• Why benchmarking?
• Origins of benchmarking
• Objectives of benchmarking
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• Types of benchmarking • Internal benchmarking
Measuring and improving performance
• External benchmarking
• Non-competitive benchmarking
• Competitive benchmarking
• Performance benchmarking
• Practice benchmarking
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• Benchmarking as an improvement tool
Measuring and improving performance
• The objectives of benchmarking
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• The role of customers
Improvement priorities
• The role of competitors
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2 - Provide an important advantage with most customers
3 - Provide a useful advantage with most customers
4 - Need to be up to good industry standard
5 - Need to be around median industry standard
6 - Need to be within close range of the rest of the industry
7 - Not usually important but could become more so in future
8 - Very rarely rate as being important
9 - Never come into consideration
For this product group does this performance objective ......
ORDERWINNINGOBJECTIVES
QUALIFYINGOBJECTIVES
LESSIMPORTANTOBJECTIVES
9 Point Importance Scale
1 - Provide a crucial advantage with customers
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PRICE
SERVQUAL (DISN.)
SERVQUAL (ORDER TAKE)
ENQUIRY LEAD-TIME
DROP QUOTE
WINDOW QUOTE
DELIVERY PERFORMANCE
DELIVERY FLEXIBILITY
VOLUME FLEXIBILITY
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
X
X
X
X
XX
X
X
X
IMPORTANCE to Customers
DOC. SERVICE X
Temperature controlled - Overnight service
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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1 - Consistently considerably better than our nearest
4 - Often marginally better than most competitors
For this product group is achieved performance ........
competitor2 - Consistently clearly better than our nearest competitor3 - Consistently marginally better than our nearest competitor
5 - About the same as most competitors
6 - Often close to main competitors
7 - Usually marginally worse than main competitors
8 - Usually worse than most competitors
9 - Consistently worse than most competitors
BETTERTHANCOMPETITORS
SAMEASCOMPETITORS
WORSETHANCOMPETITORS
9 Point Performance Scale
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COST
SERVQUAL (DISN.)
SERVQUAL (ORDER TAKE)
ENQUIRY LEAD-TIME
DROP QUOTE
WINDOW QUOTE
DELIVERY PERFORMANCE
DELIVERY FLEXIBILITY
VOLUME FLEXIBILITY
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9X
X
X
X
XX
X
X
X
PERFORMANCE against Competitors
DOC. SERVICE X
Temperature controlled - Overnight service
Estimated
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betterthan
sameas
worsethan
lessimportant qualifying order
winning
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2
3
4
5
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IMPORTANCEFOR
CUSTOMERSLOW HIGH
PER
FOR
MA
NC
EA
GA
INST
CO
MPE
TITO
RS
GO
OD
BA
D
URGENTACTION
IMPROVE
APPROPRIATEEXCESS ?
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betterthan
sameas
worsethan
lessimportant qualifying order
winning
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2
3
4
5
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9
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IMPORTANCEFOR
CUSTOMERSLOW HIGH
PER
FOR
MA
NC
EA
GA
INST
CO
MPE
TITO
RS
GO
OD
BA
D
Volume Flex X
Drop QuoteX
Delivery XWindow QuoteX
Servqual (DISN)X
Doc Service XXPrice/Cost Delivery
FlexX
XServqual (Order Take)
XEnquiry Lead-Time
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• Two approaches
Approaches to improvement
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Innovation...Short-term, dramaticLarge steps Intermittent Abrupt, volatile Few championsIndividual ideas & effort Scrap and rebuild New inventions/theories Large investment Low effort Technology Profit
• Breakthrough improvement
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Intended performance improvement with breakthrough
improvement
Time
Per
form
ance
Breakthroughimprovements
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Actual performance improvement with breakthrough improvement
Time
Per
form
ance
Actual improvement
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...KaizenLong-term, undramatic
Small steps Continuous, incrementalGradual and consistent
Everyone Group efforts, systematic
Protect and improveEstablished know-how
Low investment Large maintenance effort
People Process
• Incremental improvement
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Performance improvement with continuous improvement
Time
Per
form
ance
“Continuous”improvement
Standardize and maintain
Improvement
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...KaizenLong-term, undramatic
Small steps Continuous, incrementalGradual and consistent
Everyone Group efforts, systematic
Protect and improveEstablished know-how
Low investment Large maintenance effort
People Process
• Incremental improvement
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• Building a continuous improvement capability
Approaches to improvement
• Breakthrough versus continuous improvement • Breakthrough improvement • Continuous improvement
• An analogy
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(a)“Breakthrough” improvement, (b) “continuous” improvement and (c) combined improvement patterns
Perf
orm
ance
Time
Perf
orm
ance
Time
Perf
orm
ance
Time
Planned “breakthrough” improvements
Actual improvement
pattern
Continuous improvement
Combined “breakthrough” and continuous
improvement
(a) (b)
(c)
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• Neverending process of improvement
Improvement cycle models
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Plan Do
CheckAct
(a) The plan-do-check-act, or “Deming” improvement cycle
(a)
Plan
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Define
Measure
AnalyzeImprove
Control
(b)
(b) The define-measure-analyze-improve-control, or DMAIC six sigma improvement cycle
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PDCA Cycle repeated to create continuous
improvement
Time
Per
form
ance
“Continuous”improvement
Plan
Do
Check
Act
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• Radical breakthrough way
Business Process Engineering
• Definition
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Business process re-engineering
Functional structure Process structure
Supp
liers
Cus
tom
ers
Supp
liers
Cus
tom
ers
Func
tion
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Func
tion
2
Func
tion
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Process 2
Process 3
Process 1
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• The principles of BPR
Business Process Engineering
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Common techniques for process improvement
Cause-effect diagrams Why-why analysis
Why?
Why?
Why?
Flow charts Scatter diagrams
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Input/output analysis
Input Out put
Pareto diagrams
The procedure for CED