Kick-Off Material Planning Pilot

Recently we kicked off the Material Planning Pilot project. This project is a close collaboration between the Material Planning (SCC), OpEx and FSQA teams.

The objectives of the MP Pilot are:

• Definition and standardization of the Material Planning processes;

• Reducing errors;

• Reducing the amount of production exceptions;

• Minimizing the effort (added costs & total teams time spent) required to resolve issues;

• Minimizing the cycle time of resolving issues;

• Collecting high quality data in regards to issues;

• Setting up PPIs.

To achieve this we have set up a multitude of initiatives and divided these into 3 categories.

1. Standardization initiatives; the goal within this category is to define and standardize the in-scope processes.

2. Standardization & Improvement initiatives; for the processes within this category the aim is to define, improve and standardize the processes, an example would be the High Risk SKU list.

3. Major initiatives; with the major initiatives we want to tackle more complex but high impact improvements such as designing and implementing an optimal, dynamic, issue management flow.

We aim to execute the set initiatives, and deliver on the objectives, by the start of July. In the meantime we will be keeping you up to date with the latest changes and improvements!