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Saturday, March 13, 2010
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Issue 2
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VOLUME 1
ISSUE 2
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Walsh Western’s BPI Programme is gaining momentum
25 project proposals, 12 projects in progress, 5 in completion phase, 105 Yellow Belts trained, 40 Green Belts trained, 3 Black Belts have commenced training, 16 steering committee meetings held across all sites since April 2003.
Walsh Western has recognised through research and benchmarking that support and training are key drivers, as reflected in the data above.
The Walsh Western International BPI Programme intelligently combines some of the best techniques of the past with recent breakthroughs in management thinking. BPI involves understanding, analysing and interrogating processes, leading to improvements for the customer and savings for the business. The membership of the steering committee reflects the level of priority to which WWI gives its BPI Programme (See Figure 1). Projects are based on 'critical to customer' real-time requirements. Each individual project has a member of Senior Management as a project sponsor to provide direction and support.
Figure 1
Walsh Western has already developed its own in-house Yellow Belt training. Our Green and Black Belt training is carried out by Motorola University, also some of the Green Belts have been trained by SQT.
WWI BPI Project Example
CIM Billing is an example of a current Walsh Western BPI project, which demonstrates how improvements can be achieved.
This project involves the development and design of an IT solution which, replaces a labour intensive process.
The project is explained by examining the before and after scenarios, as shown below.
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- A manual system originally set up to manage 4 vendors. Now managing over 30 vendors and 200+ part numbers
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- 4 full time staff involved in the preparation of vendor reports/ invoices
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- System open to error and undercharging
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- Continuous backlog of invoices
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- Integrity of billing can be called into question by vendors by oversights in input
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- Improved integrity of billing
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- Improved speediness of billing
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Even at this early stage of BPI implementation, this new enhanced structure and data driven approach is improving the decision making process company wide..
By providing forums for generating ideas and analysing issues BPI is having a very positive impact on Walsh Western culture.
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