How to reduce waste as an organisation
Change is driven by true collaboration between everyone from the boardroom to the factory floor including purchasing, finance, brand, internal communications and HR. From here, there are five key steps.
Deep dive Spot the opportunities to reduce waste at every possible moment, even in places where it’s traditionally been seen as unavoidable. Expertise – People across silos will have ideas on what is and isn’t working, and why: what is being overlooked as it happens so often? Are specifications being set too high meaning saleable products are wasted? Evidence – It’s essential to have a granular, quantified understanding of the root cause of all waste: where, why and when is it happening? This is complex, requiring the knitting together of existing data with new data feeds, but this is now possible with the latest advancements in IoT and AI. Only by having a complete intolerance to waste and measuring loss to ‘perfect’ does it become clear what waste can be innovatively reduced.
Think wide Challenge current systematic issues and processes about what is and isn’t possible.
Based on your initial theories, carry out factory walks. Take a step back and ask unconstrained questions: 1. If we were designing a new factory, how would it run? 2. For a new process, what would the steps be? 3. Where are we today, what are the gaps and how do we reduce them? With the mindset that all waste can be reduced, constraints aren’t blockers but challenges to overcome.
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