Basic Criteria for Contracting
The following criteria must be met for all consulting contracts:
- Top 50 leaders attend 3 day kickoff Lean training.
- Five (5) year contract.
- Add no people, no space, and no new equipment and spend no money.
- Adopt the principles of the Global Production System (Takt Time Paced Production, Pull Production, and One Piece Flow Production).
- Establish a Lean Promotion Office staffed with personnel approved by John Black and Associates LLC (JBA).
- Certify top management as Lean Leaders and Workshop Leaders.
- Develop a Tier 1 "as is" and twelve (12) month "future state" Value Stream Map and supporting Tier 2 (Product/Service Line) Value Stream Maps, "as is" and "future state."
- Participate in JBA "Wash Your Hands" Training in Redmond, Washington led by Japanese consultants.
- Develop and implement a Lean Training Matrix (will include top 50 team to Japan at later date to attend Japan Gemba Kaizen led by master senseis who were students of Taiichi Ohno).
- Sign John Black and Associates material licensing agreement and Kanban Supply Chain Management Material licensing agreement.
- Develop and implement five (5) year Lean Business Plan for deployment of Lean starting with Model Line 1.
- Immediately remove any identified barriers to implementation.
- Be ready to throw out traditions which no longer work.
- Build and utilize Lean Visibility Room as specified by John Black and Associates.
- Formation and monthly meeting of Lean Leadership Team (Top Executives plus John Black and Associates).
- Conduct Rapid Process Improvement Workshops (RPIW) - Kaizen events - according to John Black and Associates, consulted by JBA.
- Develop and implement policy for "anchor draggers." Functions and managers to be evaluated in terms of VA/NVA criteria.
- Define and implement redeployment policy for people freed up by RPIW's and Lean Production.
- Implement no layoff policy consistent with redeployment policy.
- Deployment of Management by Policy (Hoshin Kanri).
- Establish Lean Accounting system.
- Transition from functional silo organization to Product/Service Line Teams.
- Adoption of 3P Production Preparation Process before any major capital expenditures are made applying the 7 flows.
- Implement Supply Chain Management as consulted by John Black and Associates.
- Implement Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and Autonomous Maintenance as consulted by John Black and Associates.
- Conduct major Product/Quantity (P/Q) Analysis as consulted by John Black and Associates.
- Ongoing external training as identified above.