Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Contract Manufacturing Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Contract Manufacturing related project.
Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.
The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Contract Manufacturing specific requirements:
STEP 1: Get your bearings
Start with...
- The latest quick edition of the Contract Manufacturing Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.
Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…
- Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation
Then find your goals...
STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track
Featuring 994 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Contract Manufacturing improvements can be made.
Examples; 10 of the 994 standard requirements:
- What makes for a successful contract electronics manufacturing relationship and what does a medical device organization need to keep in mind and consider during the selection process?
- Has your organization ever been asked by a customer to demonstrate or guarantee the robustness of your cybersecurity processes as part of a contract or other business agreement?
- Is the process flow chart in place and identifies all manufacturing operations, handling techniques, inspection steps, alternate/backup processes, and sub contract suppliers?
- What strategies do you implement to manage costs and remain competitive when it comes to high margin or high value products in the prime stage of market or patent lifecycle?
- How can a large organization with discrete, independently operating business units successfully identify and pursue opportunities that lie between organizational boundaries?
- Has your business ever asked a supplier to demonstrate or guarantee the robustness of the cybersecurity processes as part of a contract or other business agreement?
- What strategies do you implement to achieve or manage lower costs and stay competitive when it comes to low margin or end of market lifecycle products?
- Do you see a role for guaranteed utilization orders for your products in the future, especially for products potentially at risk for short supply?
- Will the use of an external specialist contract manufacturer cause problems with all the existing supplier/logistic operations of the core firm?
- When in development, and how do you mitigate the risk presented by having individual or limited suppliers of your raw and ancillary materials?
Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:
- The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Contract Manufacturing book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
Your Contract Manufacturing self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:
- The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Contract Manufacturing Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Contract Manufacturing areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
- Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix
- Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Contract Manufacturing Self-Assessment
- Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results
- Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:
STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy
The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Contract Manufacturing projects with the 62 implementation resources:
- 62 step-by-step Contract Manufacturing Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Contract Manufacturing project requirements and success criteria:
Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:
- Change Management Plan: What is the most positive interpretation it can receive?
- Executing Process Group: What were things that you did very well and want to do the same again on the next Contract Manufacturing project?
- Procurement Audit: Are buyers prohibited from accepting gifts from vendors?
- Cost Management Plan: Best practices implementation â How will change management be applied to this Contract Manufacturing project?
- Executing Process Group: What is the difference between conceptual, application, and evaluative questions?
- Probability and Impact Assessment: Do you use diagramming techniques to show cause and effect?
- Activity Duration Estimates: Do scope statements include the Contract Manufacturing project objectives and expected deliverables?
- Scope Management Plan: Is there a Contract Manufacturing project organization chart showing the reporting relationships and responsibilities for each position?
- Quality Audit: Is quality audit a prerequisite for program accreditation or program recognition?
- Quality Management Plan: Account for the procedures used to verify the data quality of the data being reviewed?
Step-by-step and complete Contract Manufacturing Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.
1.0 Initiating Process Group:
- 1.1 Contract Manufacturing project Charter
- 1.2 Stakeholder Register
- 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix
2.0 Planning Process Group:
- 2.1 Contract Manufacturing project Management Plan
- 2.2 Scope Management Plan
- 2.3 Requirements Management Plan
- 2.4 Requirements Documentation
- 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix
- 2.6 Contract Manufacturing project Scope Statement
- 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log
- 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure
- 2.9 WBS Dictionary
- 2.10 Schedule Management Plan
- 2.11 Activity List
- 2.12 Activity Attributes
- 2.13 Milestone List
- 2.14 Network Diagram
- 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements
- 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure
- 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates
- 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet
- 2.19 Contract Manufacturing project Schedule
- 2.20 Cost Management Plan
- 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates
- 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet
- 2.23 Cost Baseline
- 2.24 Quality Management Plan
- 2.25 Quality Metrics
- 2.26 Process Improvement Plan
- 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix
- 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities
- 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan
- 2.30 Communications Management Plan
- 2.31 Risk Management Plan
- 2.32 Risk Register
- 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment
- 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix
- 2.35 Risk Data Sheet
- 2.36 Procurement Management Plan
- 2.37 Source Selection Criteria
- 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan
- 2.39 Change Management Plan
3.0 Executing Process Group:
- 3.1 Team Member Status Report
- 3.2 Change Request
- 3.3 Change Log
- 3.4 Decision Log
- 3.5 Quality Audit
- 3.6 Team Directory
- 3.7 Team Operating Agreement
- 3.8 Team Performance Assessment
- 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment
- 3.10 Issue Log
4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:
- 4.1 Contract Manufacturing project Performance Report
- 4.2 Variance Analysis
- 4.3 Earned Value Status
- 4.4 Risk Audit
- 4.5 Contractor Status Report
- 4.6 Formal Acceptance
5.0 Closing Process Group:
- 5.1 Procurement Audit
- 5.2 Contract Close-Out
- 5.3 Contract Manufacturing project or Phase Close-Out
- 5.4 Lessons Learned
Results
With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Contract Manufacturing project with this in-depth Contract Manufacturing Toolkit.
In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:
- Diagnose Contract Manufacturing projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices
- Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals
- Integrate recent advances in Contract Manufacturing and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines
Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.
Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'
This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Contract Manufacturing investments work better.
This Contract Manufacturing All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.
Includes lifetime updates
Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.
