Business Development: Lean/JIT Approach Analysis and Improvement

This report presents an analysis of a Lean/JIT (Just-In-Time) approach to business development, focusing on process improvement and waste reduction. It proposes a system to eliminate inefficiencies, reduce production costs, and enhance product quality. The report details a three-stage process: design, cake creation, and delivery, highlighting current and proposed processes with key changes. The goal is to streamline operations, minimize inventory, increase production efficiency, and eliminate waste. The analysis emphasizes the reduction of '3M' wastes (Muda, Muri, and Mura) and the importance of on-time or on-demand production to achieve customer satisfaction and brand loyalty. The proposed changes aim to simplify steps, streamline workflows, and decrease waiting times, ultimately leading to a more efficient and responsive business model. The report concludes with a focus on continuous flow and predetermined delivery to optimize the overall process.

Analysis & Scope For
Improvement

 Developing more faster and dependable operation.
 This proposal provide support for generating an effective system in
order to eliminate overall invaluable areas, allowing more efficient
procedures, reduced cost of production and improving quality of
products.

 Just in time can be described as an effective philosophy of
production that is based on planned elimination of overall waste and
on continuous improvement or manufacturing.
 It is helpful reduce inventory, increase productivity, improve quality
and decrease space requirements.
 It will be focused that how to develop Lean thinking approach in
order to operate and concentrate here to produce only items which
are required, Just in time when they are needed.
Creating a Lean/JIT approach

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 Key benefits:
 Reduction in inventory
 Increased production
 Elimination of waste
 Key targets:
 Determine and eliminate
overall inefficiencies & waste
 Develop continuity in
operational activities for goods
& services
 Produce on time or on demand

 The focus is to efficiently simplify steps of every stage of process in
order to increase work flow speed and manufacturing value.
 The primary objective is all about to reduce first stage of procedure.
 This process will begin frim initial step of agreeing customer about
design and making deposit payments.
 It will provide benefit that order can begin quicker, freeing up time
in the process.
Stage 1, Design Process

 Waiting for client till they make a contact via phone.
 Fix a schedule meeting with customer for discussing general terms.
 Evaluate needs and wants of consumer and prepare design draft.
 Collect advance deposit by providing receipt and update account
accurately.
 Gain a confirmation from client regarding final design.
Your Current Process

 Discuss basic terms on first call of client and evaluate actual
demands and wants of them.
 Establish an appropriate design draft.
 Take advanced deposit through giving receipt and update accounts.
 Take confirmation for final design.
Our proposed Process

 Discussing basic terms on first call and determine customer’s wants
allow to make actual design more quickly by eliminating waiting
time and unnecessary movements.
 Online presence display your present work where customer cane
select their favourite design and colour which also facilitate to speed
up process. It can be considered as strong valuable adding motion
for an organisation.
Key Changes

 The aim is to decrease 3M’ using Lean approach:
 Muda: This consist waste full waiting at the time of products are
not moving or being processed.
 Muri: It includes Overloading situation of assets or employees and
over production of items when it is not needed.
 Mura: Developing irregularity, gyrating schedule not caused by end
consumer demand but rather by production system.
Stage 2, The cake creation

 Preparing the decorations including order of sugar paste while
fruitcakes consumes 3 months for maturing.
 Making combination of perishable goods and purchasing raw material
in bulk.
 Preparing photographing decorations and send to take approval of
customer.
 Allow brides to view decorations.
 Conduct proper storage of flowers.
 Source marzipan and icing.
 Source final essential accessories including cake boards.
Your current process

 Maintain priority for orders regarding fruitcakes.
 Buy all ingredient which are required for specific orders only.
 Purchase or prepare decorations before completing the cake.
 Brides are allowed to come for viewing decorations and confirm
their photographs as well.
 Source marzipan and icing purchasing only for particular order,
 Source final required accessories.
Our Proposed Process

 The procedure get simplified into manageable steps following flow of
production continuously.
 Complete initial activity and then move to another step by step.
 When fruitcake is closer to completion then start decoration process for
decreasing box space.
 Local brides at early convenience or confirm their pictures which reduce
awaiting time for client approval and facilitate to buy stock as required
to order rather than bulk buying that results into minimal inventory.
Key Changes