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Targeting the improvement projects

 07/10/2015
By Dr. Alin Posteucă

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 opportunities;
3) performance improvement by developing a contextual managerial behavior in line with the expectations of employees;
4) development of transparent cost targets from the top management’s level, the middle mangement’s level, then the lower management’s level and finally at the staff, team leader and operator’s level;
5) ensuring the understanding of each employee‘s role in achieving the company’s cost targets;
6) providing a clear visibility of the current status of the cost objectives facing the planned state;
7) ensuring a continuous monitoring of the planning for systemic and systematic improvements to achieve the medium and long-term cost targets of the company.

In this context, Manufacturing Cost Policy Deployment (MCPD) refers to targeting the improvement projects to meet the company’s objectives by means of establishing a plan to reduce product costs by cooperation between Controlling department and productive and continuous improvement departments. Details…

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Strategic productivity and profitability consultant and researcher, Alin Posteucă, Ph.D., Ph.D. is transforming the way companies approach their strategic transformation. With over 20 years of management consulting experience, Posteucă has created effective concepts such as Strategic Kaizen, Takt Profit, KAIZENshiro Budgets and Costing. His research on production flow has led to innovative breakthroughs in strategic and operational productivity improvement.

Posteucă's investigation into typologies of losses and waste has identified feasible improvements that can achieve the ideal state of production flow, known as Synchronous Profitable Operations (SPO). His Takt Profit model allows the optimization of production planning, transforming profit per minute into objectives for strategic improvements achieved through Strategic Kaizen projects.

Posteucă's research has led to increased effectiveness in strategic improvements and has set the stage for future productivity in the world of manufacturing technology. He is laureate of the Romanian Academy of the "Traian Vuia" Prize, the highest scientific prize in Romania.