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Innovation

We at SQI Global truly believe the true measure of an organisation's success is the organisation's ability to use Continuous Improvement activities to innovate all aspects on its operations which provides value to itself and customers.

We often find across the supply chain, many organisations fail to stop and reflect on its current operational behaviours to identify where the waste is, as well to review if the current activities still adds value to the customer.

Even when new ideas and improvements are identified there is little effort and resources placed for these ideas to be refined, trialled and finally executed into real a solution.

Additionally these ideas are typically viewed with an internal lens and fail to integrate what benefits these have on the customer.

This is where our expert Continuous Improvement consultants can step into your supply chain and work with suppliers and manufactures to not only identify improvement opportunities that add value to both the supplier and customer, but also help execute them into real solutions.

We help change the current paradigm to build an operational culture around Continuous Improvements that creates and delivers innovation to your supply chain.

Importance of CI

Why we need to continually Improve ?

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There are constant external pressures being placed on organisations, these can be, from shareholders, increased competition, Increase regulations and compliance requirements and increasing costs in materials and labour.

These external pressures force internal pressures to generate more sales, create innovation, drive down cost of goods sold and reduce warranties and quality issues.

Without a Continuous Improvement culture put in place, organisations will find it difficult to manage these internal pressures effectively.

Fundamental Areas CI Activities

Continuous Improvement is an ongoing effort to Improve….

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Every part of our supply chain. Products, services, processes (production, supplier, IT, finance, QA, ETC)

Supplier

Manufacturer

Distributor

Retailer

CI Life Cycle

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The Continuous Improvement is a continuous iterative cycle, which cycles through four basic steps.

The cycle starts with the generation of a new idea or opportunity. These ideas can come from any part of the organisation's operations and from all levels of management to shop floor staff.

Once the idea is generated, the next step is to carefully analyse the value add of this idea to the business. Does the business have the resources to implement the idea, who externally can help, what other resources are needed.

Once the idea is proven to add value to the business, then it needs to be carefully planned and implemented, this also includes training staff on the new methodology

Once the idea is implemented, due diligence is needed to ensure the new methodology is followed and it becomes standardised, where by the new methodology becomes a routine

The crucial importance of CI is what happens next. Once a new method becomes standardised and routine practice, this doesn’t mean it’s the final solution or the only approach. Instead, it becomes the new baseline against which you will continue to measure for future improvements.

What is a Value added activity

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