{"id":196,"date":"2014-12-11T19:52:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T18:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arumba.com\/website\/?page_id=196"},"modified":"2015-01-02T19:24:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T18:24:48","slug":"accurate-operations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.arumba.com\/website\/business-excellence\/accurate-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Accurate Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are accurate operations? We think, that the definition:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>on time<\/li>\n<li>on quality<\/li>\n<li>and on cost<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>is a useful definition. According our experience, on time is a very good indicator also for the other two parts of the definition. Why? Because most problems in your execution leads to <b>overdue <\/b>steps in your processes.<\/p>\n<p>Examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Quality problems lead to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">late<\/span> order shipments<\/li>\n<li>Quality problems at customer site lead to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">late<\/span> payments<\/li>\n<li>Time is money. If you need more time for a particular step, you create more cost and create <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">delays<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To discover delays is faster and easier than discover quality or cost problems. Delays are universal, and because they are only measured in time, they can be automatically found.<\/p>\n<p>This is why our tools search for overdue execution steps and automatically assign them to the responsible department and process variants. These results can be\u00a0used to detect <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">root causes<\/span>\u00a0of problems\u00a0(time, quality,cost)\u00a0 together with your business and process owners. If root causes are removed, execution improves immediately.<br \/>\nTypical <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">quick wins<\/span> are: Enhancement of master data, changing of priorities or goals, small changes of processes, user training, and closing gaps in end-to-end processes. On top, because &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">what gets measured gets done<\/span>&#8220;, adding the right feedback signals improves operations immediately.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, our tools regularly monitor overdue process steps and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">alarm<\/span>\u00a0the responsible manager by mail or SMS if exceptions occur. This fast <a title=\"Stablilizing Feedback Loops\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arumba.com\/website\/business-excellence\/feedback-loops\/\">feedback loops<\/a> stabilizes your execution and make sure line management takes immediate actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are accurate operations? We think, that the definition: on time on quality and on cost is a useful definition. According our experience, on time is a very good indicator also for the other two parts of the definition. Why? Because most problems in your execution leads to overdue steps in your processes. Examples: Quality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":25,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-196","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arumba.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arumba.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arumba.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arumba.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arumba.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.arumba.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/www.arumba.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196\/revisions\/501"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arumba.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arumba.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}