cost reduction

The basic goal of MCPD thinking is to ensure a sustainable competitive supremacy through cost-competitiveness improvement to achieve real structural profit reform based on productivity reform.
At the beginning of the MCPD projects, managers and practitioners are concerned about:

concomitant reconciliation between the […]

Often, one of the first questions that I ask top managers is about the current and future production capacity needed in connection with the vision and mission of productivity.
Successful planning and implementation of strategic Kaizen and Kaikaku for cost improvement requires answers to questions such as:

What is the s […]

Sales Decrease Scenario: Internal Target Profit by Minimizing Inputs

Over the life of each company, shorter or longer periods of decline in sales may occur. The causes of these decreases may be diverse from internal causes of the company (lower quality level, increased cost level, slowing innovation, unsynchronized proces […]

MCPD was developed by Dr. Dr. Alin POSTEUCĂ, who is also the co-author of Manufacturing Cost Policy Deployment (MCPD) and Methods Design Concept (MDC): The Path to Competitiveness which will be published by Productivity Press din New York (USA) in March 2017. Also, MCPD will be publicly presented at the World Productivity Congress to be […]

The continuous improvement of productivity and quality requires first a continuous process measurement. Some companies measure losses and waste in order to identify ways for improvement. In this context, what are the most common definitions for losses in connection with waste? Also, how are losses measured in connection with waste?
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One of the major challenges of sustaining the continuous improvement culture is visible connections between losses, waste and process cost level. In this context, what are the most common methods of transforming losses and waste into costs?

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One of the major challenges of sustaining the continuous improvement culture is visible connections between losses, wasteand process cost level. In this context, what are the most common methods of transforming losses and waste into costs?

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The major challenges of the top management are:
1) designing a goal system aligned with strategy, mission and vision of the company in order to continuously increase the competitiveness level including on price;
2) continuous reconciliation between the necessary cost level incurred by the market and process costs improvement opportuniti […]

In the last 5-6 years, we observed a number of phenomena in most manufacturing company that require a number of systemic changes on production systems and workflow to continuously synchronize to the market (customers, suppliers and competitors).
The major changes of the internal and external factors that require innovati […]