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The 4 M’s

 Manpower
 Machine
 Material
 Measurement

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Who are we talking about?

 Warehouse and beyond


○ Dismantling
○ Parts Gathering
○ Shipping/receiving
○ People who manage them

 All must use the Inventory Management


System
 All must work independently
 Outcome driven
 Answer 3 Questions

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Order Tracker

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How they Add Value?

 Understands that they are ultimately


responsible for the customers
experience
 Quality
○ Damage
○ Clean
 Timeliness
○ Prepared and ready to go when promised

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IMS Specific Procedures

 Procedures need to be specific to the system


 Each Inventory Management System has
screen specific ways to complete a process
 I need to be able to train and manage with my
procedures
 Clearly states how much, how often and steps
needed to complete

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Standardized Work
 Takt Time
 Cycle Time
 Crew Size
 Job Instruction Sheet
 Continuous Improvement

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Killers of Performance
 Waste
 Over Inventory
 Over production
 Over staffed
 Transportation
 Excess Movement of vehicles
○ Drained place in yard
○ Part sold goes to dismantling
○ Cuts goes to dismantling
 Excess Handling of parts

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Minimize Waste
 Eliminate Waste
1. Anything that does not add value to the
customer
2. Anything that does not add value to the
company – should be measured in
dollars
3. Any step or feature of a process than
can be improved

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Minimize Movement
 Eliminate Handling
 Vehicles
 Parts

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Manpower
 What skills
 How many
 How the position adds value to the
customer and to the company
 Must be trained and performance
observed

 There is no such thing as “one and done”


when it comes to training.

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Movement
 Vehicles moved 3 times
 Vehicles stored sequentially
 Parts removed and stored according to
 Environment
 Sales
 Available storage
 Warehouse areas arranged so that high
volume high dollar parts closest to shipping

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Machines
 From small tools to loaders
 From yard cars to fork lifts
 Computers and Printers
Make sure that those who need them have
them and they are kept in working order
Make sure that there is uniformity across
employees by position.
If the “machine” can eliminate or prevent
the addition of employee (s)

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Materials
 What?
 Cleaning
 Packaging
 Core Bins

 Two way radio’s


 Information
 Where?
 Always in the same place
 Where the work is done

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Measurement
 What gets monitored and measured
gets managed
 Better to Best – it’s a journey, not a
destination
 Available from the IMS
 Employee Accessible
 Sales
 Credits
 Number of

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Measurements
 1.2 vehicles a day per BAY
 Inspect and gather 4 parts per hour
 Shipping and Delivery
 Prep, wash, package & load – 8 parts per
hour.
 Invoice all freight and delivered parts
 Produce the manifest
 Deliver
 Check in all returned parts
 Restock all returned parts

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Order Tracker

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Order Tracker Activity
Report

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Managers?
 Operation/Production/Shipping Manager
 Trains new staff in:
 Standardized Work in Process
 Includes use of tools/equipment
 Inventory/Yard management system
 Spends up to 50% of their time training staff and
improving processes.
 Trains and rewards staff for incremental
improvements
 SWIP
 Customer Satisfaction
 Reduction in credits

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